At 11:53 pm 29/07/2001 +0100, Tony Firshman wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 at 23:04:35, you wrote:
>(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
>>I have put a picture of the keyboard at
>>http://www.solutionengineers.com/oldstuff/ql/ql.html - anyone who is
>>remotely interested is welcome to take a look.
>The top row of that layout, without the '0 )' is very like the IBM
>German layout - in fact 1-9 are exactly the same, including the shifted
>3 squiggle. .... but not the rest of the layout.
Do you know what would usually live above the zero, if anything?
>Certainly odd. I reckon it is a German Samsung QL, with a substitute
>English JM ROM, and minimal key changes. Odd though, becaus eth JM
>would not drive shift 1-9 to match the keys. Are you sure the ROMs are
>not reblown onto eproms (a window on the chip) - with a modified kbd
>table.
No, the JMs are definitely not EPROMS. They may be EEPROMs, I suppose, but
they seem to have all the proper markings to be a plain old ROM. Is it
plausible that the former owner may have used a Gold Card (or similar) and
had a start-up disk/mdv to alter the keytable?
>In Europe, I think only the German one had the 9D connectors. Has it
>lots of extra decoupling caps, spring GD connector to kbd, and extra
>foil on the edge of the kbd plate, and some toroidal chokes? That was
>the usual thing.
There certainly seem to be more components in there than I remember from my
other QLs, and yes, there's a bit of foil at each end of the KB plate. I'm
not sure about the chokes and GD(?) connector - I'll open it up again
tonight and add some pictures of the interior to the page.
Cheers!
Ade.
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