On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 at 09:35:11, Adrian Vickers wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>>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?
= - if it followed the IBM layout, which it probably did.
Incidentally the std UK layout followed the US IBM kybd layout as far as
it could - well the top row at least.
>
>>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?
Was that possible with std roms?
>
>>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.
Yeah - looks very like a std German QL hacked.
A lot of those hardware mods did very little I suspect, but can't do any
harm!
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