Steven Hirsch

Auction: 270786212072

Does anyone know anything about this system?

Steven Hirsch

On 07/22/2011 09:09 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> Auction: 270786212072
>
> Does anyone know anything about this system?

Sorry, II, not IIe.

David Schmidt

On 7/22/2011 9:09 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> Auction: 270786212072
>
> Does anyone know anything about this system?

What I know about that system is that it has a Laser 128 keyboard. :-)

D Finnigan

David Schmidt wrote:
> On 7/22/2011 9:09 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> Auction: 270786212072
>>
>> Does anyone know anything about this system?
>
> What I know about that system is that it has a Laser 128 keyboard. :-)
>

I saw that too, and I believe it's just a homebrew hardware hack done by a
rather clever person. Did a good job cutting the case too.

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David Schmidt

On 7/22/2011 3:27 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
> David Schmidt wrote:
>> On 7/22/2011 9:09 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>>> Auction: 270786212072
>>>
>>> Does anyone know anything about this system?
>>
>> What I know about that system is that it has a Laser 128 keyboard. :-)
>>
>
> I saw that too, and I believe it's just a homebrew hardware hack done by a
> rather clever person. Did a good job cutting the case too.

Oh, I actually read the description now - I had stopped when I saw "68k"
and called BS on it. Sure enough, all they're really claiming is that
they retrofitted the Laser 128 keyboard. Fair enough.

They clearly had a penchant for the finer details... neatly labeled
ROMs, neat routing of ribbon cable, etc.

D Finnigan

David Schmidt wrote:
>
> Sure enough, all they're really claiming is that
> they retrofitted the Laser 128 keyboard. Fair enough.

Looks like it has the Shift-key mod too. The ribbon cable goes right from
the keyboard daughter card, into the game port, and then back out to a male
DB9 connector. But that's odd because usually the game port is a female
connector.

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Scott Alfter

In article <j0budt$hle$1@dont-email.me>,
David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
>On 7/22/2011 9:09 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> Auction: 270786212072
>>
>> Does anyone know anything about this system?
>
>What I know about that system is that it has a Laser 128 keyboard. :-)

Just as a guess, the board over the power supply produces ASCII output from
the Laser 128 keyboard, probably with lowercase as well as uppercase. I'm
guessing it also routes the Open-Apple and Solid-Apple keys to the joystick
port (so they work as in a IIe or later machine). What the DB-9 connector
hanging off the joystick port is supposed to be, I don't know...it could be
wired the same way as a IIe/IIc/IIGS joystick port, but you'd need a
gender-bender to plug one in.

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David Chiu

On 7/22/2011 6:37 AM, David Schmidt wrote:
> On 7/22/2011 9:09 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> Auction: 270786212072
>>
>> Does anyone know anything about this system?
>
> What I know about that system is that it has a Laser 128 keyboard. :-)

The ROMs looked like 27xx EPROMs. Didn't II+ use masked ROM chip with
"modified" pinout that differ from 27xx parts?