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Well, I am going to take a shot here, but I think it is a long shot.
So I recently aquired a Med Fly Apple II clone with 2 disk drives. However, the folks I bought it from could not find the keyboard for it.
I am in search of a keyboard, can anyone help or point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Jay
Cool clone. Looks like the keyboard connector is an RJ11 or RJ12 maybe? That's going to be a tough one. Can you show some pictures inside the case where that jack hooks up to the motherboard? Is there some kind of adapter in there? If I recall some of those clones had a little board that converted a serial stream from a keyboard to a ][+ style connector on the motherboard. If it is something like that a possible solution to get the machine running might be a PS/2 adapter and then you can easily find a PS/2 style keyboard. Or possibly even a USB converter maybe with a wireless keyboard? Just some thoughts.
There were so many different clones built back in the day. I think I vaguely remember seeing ads for the Med Fly back in the 1980s but I am pretty sure I never knew anyone that had one or ever saw one in person. I suspect a lot of those clones didn't sell in very large quantities. By the time later ones came out the world had moved on to the //e and most of the clones were ][+ compatible which couldn't run a lot of the new software people wanted to use very easily. Getting things like Appleworks to run on a ][+ clone required a lot of gyrations and often the end result wasn't great.
As I recall the Medfly was a Australian version of the German Basis 108. I think the MEDFLY people licensed it from Basis, had quality problems and Basis kind of stepped in to save their reputation. I think there were at least 2 version of the MEDFLY, pre and post Basis involovement. This is all from ancient memories, but you might see what you can find on Basis 108. Does yours have a Z80 on board also?
I start classes again tomorrow, but if you hit me with a PM in 10 days or so, I'll try to dig my Basis 108 out of storage and send some pics. I'd love to see pics of yours to compare to later as well.