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Anonymous Coward

Joined: 20 Nov 2004
Posts: 589
Location: Shandong, China
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Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:57 pm |
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So do you know what's pretty weird? The high density floppy controller I couldn't get going on my IBM PC/XT motherboard seems to work just fine on the V30 motherboard. What could be the reason for this? Is it possible that the BASIC chips are taking up a memory address needed by the controller? |
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untitled
Joined: 02 May 2006
Posts: 11
Location: Pheonix, Arizona
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Sun May 07, 2006 8:05 pm |
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I thought all model Ms can automatically translate XT scancodes. All of the model Ms I've tried on my XT seem to work |
Just because I was a little skeptical of that, I tested 10 of my model M keyboards on my 5150, and only the original PC/XT keyboard (without the status LED's) worked properly- all others did the standard gibberish (ei Enter="/") that comes from the scancodes being different-
this includes even the Original IBM PC AT keyboard manufactured in '83, all the way up to my newest Model M manufactured in '94
any ideas?
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Erik

Joined: 28 Feb 2006
Posts: 127
Location: LI, NY
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Fri May 12, 2006 3:44 pm |
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harshbarj wrote: |
Anonymous Coward wrote: |
I appreciate the offer, but I'm affraid I can't adopt anymore keyboards. |
Should see my pile (somewere around 50 keyboards) |
Yeah, I have the same thing going on at my house. I have a billion keyboards yet it's my hard drives that are usually the first to go. (Which I have the least of )
About the Model M keyboard, I have the 83 key for my XT, I never really thought about trying to swap it w/ my M keyboard... (perhaps I'll give it a test later and see how it goes). |
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