Most of you know, not the whole world types QWERTY. Belgium and France each
have their variation of the AZERTY layout, and Germany has QWERZU. Tandy also
catered for these regional layouts, and I recently got several Azerty keyboard
equipped Model 102's. Now, contrary to the Olivetti M-10, where the driver was
in ROM, Tandy sold their German/Belgian/French Model T's with a kit: one pack
of keycaps, where you could replace most keys with the national printed ones.
And a ROM. You had to activate the ROM, it would install the driver, and you
could type in the layout of your choice. It was complicated if you wanted to
use another ROM-chip, but that's not the issue here. You guessed it: does
anybody have a copy of the activation procedure for a local keyboard?
As far as I remembered, it was a CALL in BASIC, and a parameter. I don't know
if, after that, there was a menu or something, because I never used it. I was
used to using Qwerty, so I stuck with it. (FYI, I only switched to Azerty when
I bought laptops, and I couldn't get Qwerty in Belgium...)
Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus
Jan-80
