Hi everybody
I'm new to the forum and new to retro-computing all together. Nostalgia had hit me and I was looking around for the computers I grew up with. A lucky find at the scrapyard pushed me towards the Apple. I found an abandoned Apple IIe, wich I allready restored a little bit. It is an Euro-model (PAL) with the switch on the bottom, but I could'nt get it to switch characters. It took me a lot of hours on the web to find out that there's something strange going on on the motherboard. It had the keyboard ROM 341-0150-A and Video ROM 341-0160-A, both for UK/USA characters, yet the keyboard has Azerty-layout (with faint Qwerty characters on the keys). Thus: it has an Azerty keyboard but it types Qwerty! It was bought in Brussels, so a french talking costumer maybe asked for a replacement keyboard?
I'm not a die-hard for any layout, I just want it to be consistent. So I was looking for ROM replacements. I think a possible combination could be Video ROM 342-0274-A with keyboard ROM 342-0306-A. Sadly I can't find any on sale, nor can I find a .bin dump to try and burn a ROM myself (never done it, but I'm not afraid to try new things). What are your thougts on this?
Take a look at this topic: https://www.applefritter.com/content/apple-iie-canadian-version