ColecoGamer Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 (edited) It produces a great picture and the floppy drive works, but the only key on the keyboard that works is the ESC key. I can appreciate the irony in that. Lol My question is - where can I find a keyboard replacement? As for the IIe I bought - after 5 minutes of use, the power supply started shooting out sparks and plenty of smoke. It was like the 4th of July. Lol Edit: I’m wondering if it might be the keyboard encoder chip in the IIc? Edited March 3, 2022 by ColecoGamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 None of the keys work? Apart from the Open/closed apple and CTRL and RESET, that is? If absolutely none of the keys work I would suspect the encoder, not the keyboard itself. The keyboard is easy enough to test with a multimeter. It has no intelligence itself, just open contacts on a matrix. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoGamer Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 On 3/3/2022 at 11:52 AM, Baldrick said: None of the keys work? Apart from the Open/closed apple and CTRL and RESET, that is? If absolutely none of the keys work I would suspect the encoder, not the keyboard itself. The keyboard is easy enough to test with a multimeter. It has no intelligence itself, just open contacts on a matrix. Thank you for the response. I did some research online, and discovered it was the Encoder chip. Since pressing Ctrl + Reset bypasses the Encoder chip, it made perfect sense to me. I ordered an Encoder chip Pro off eBay; I’m just waiting on it to arrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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