[comp.sys.misc] Key Tronic keyboards?

timothym@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Timothy D Margeson) (04/22/88)

Hi,

Anyone out there have a manual for a Key Tronic keyboard, the 101 key 
enhanced AT style?

If so, can you tell me what the two dip switches on the underside do. It
is my understanding that one is for AT/PC modes, the other ??? Perhaps a
Control <-> CapsLock function reversal.

Thanks....

p.s. The  "Key Tronic" brand may be a clone of "Keytronic", so if you have
a KB5151 or such, and the nameplate has the obvious space between Key and
Tronic, please forward any info you have.


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stevewa@upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward) (04/22/88)

I have the Key Tronic 101-key Enhanced keyboard.  According to the sticker on
the back of the keyboard, the two dip switches are BOTH for switching between
AT and XT modes.

The settings are:

SWITCH      1  2
----------------
PC/AT       0  0
PC/XT       1  1

Hope this helps out...I don't have a manual and I don't know if one is
available.

Steve

anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (04/22/88)

In article <2852@tekigm2.TEK.COM>, timothym@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Timothy D Margeson) writes...
 
]Anyone out there have a manual for a Key Tronic keyboard, the 101 key 
]enhanced AT style?
] 
]If so, can you tell me what the two dip switches on the underside do. It
]is my understanding that one is for AT/PC modes, the other ??? Perhaps a
]Control <-> CapsLock function reversal.

I have a (genuine) KB5151, which I loathe, detest, despise, and otherwise
don't like much.  It has no such switches, so it's clearly not the same
as yours.  On my home machine (AT clone), I have an 84-key Maxiswitch
keyboard (as an aside, I *much* prefer having the function keys at the
right, not above, the typing keypad), and it has two switches.  One is
the XT/AT switch.  The other interchanges the tilde and escape keys
(upper left corners typing/numeric keypads.  It's a simple metter to
pop off the key buttons to interchange them as well; our maintenance
people have a very clever (as in simple) wire tool for lifting key
buttons straight up, but you can simulate that with a couple pieces
of wire.

Maybe your other switch does something like that?


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moe@aati.UUCP (Moe Bradley) (04/27/88)

I set one up yesterday.  Here is what the label near the switches
says:

	SWITCH    1   2
	ENXTAT    0   0
	PC/AT     0   0
        PC/XT     1   1
        0=ON    1=OFF

It did not come with a manual of any shape or form, not is there one
available as far as I know.  It's a little sticky, keywise, but that 
may be because I am not used to it yet.