> New information:
>
> " The Keyboard Mode bit is unused on UK machines. On Japanese
> machines it is tied to a jumper to determine the
> keyboard's character set."
>
> So this is probably a jumper which is for what Maarten said:
>
> "0" for syllable layout; "1" for JIS layout
Hmmm... Although I can't find such a jumper on my (Sanyo Wavy MSX2+)
keyboard I guess it's very well possible, since there are more
characters in the Japanese character set than are available through the
KANA key (I think). I guess it's some pre-Kanji ROM way of entering
Japanese text, supported by some Japanese text editors. And then the
Kanji ROM was 'invented', and people started using CTRL-SPACE in Kanji
mode and the bit wasn't nessecary anymore, so it disappeared out of the
machines.
Just a wild speculation...
~Grauw
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