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Ashby's Easy Shift-Key Modifier...........Bob Sander-Cederlof

How many times have you read or heard about a way to modify your Apple so that the shift-key would function like a normal typewriter?  It is a relatively safe and easy thing to do, but the directions can really be frightening.

Words like "solder", "wire", "take the bottom off your Apple", and so on.

If you have an Apple with the piggy-back board hanging down under your keyboard (Revision 7 or newer), take heart!  There is a little device you can pick up for only $15 postpaid, called Ashby's Shift-Key Modifier, which hooks up the modification without any tools or trouble.  And it only takes a minute or so!  (In fact, only a few seconds if you have done it a few times like I have.)

The Modifier consists of a piece of wire fitted with a plug for the game connector on one end, and with a clip on the other end.  The plug is devised so that you still have an empty game socket on top, for attaching paddles or whatever.

To install the Modifier, all you have to do is insert the plug into the game socket, and clip the other end onto the connector from the keyboard to the piggy-back board at the second wire from the right (the RESET key side).

I have installed them on all my Apples, except for my oldest one.  (That one is serial #219, bought in August of 1977, and is so old it doesn't even have ventilation slots on the case!  Yes, I installed the open-case-and-solder-a-wire modification in the old one.)

Now I can use the shift-key the way I was taught in typing class when I am using Data Capture 4.0, SuperText II, Apple Pie 2.0, the S-C Macro Assembler, or the Word Handler.  And more and more programs are being created to take advantage of a REAL shift key on an Apple.

The normal retail price of the Ashby Shift-Key Modifier is $18.  I have bought a bunch of them, and you can have them for only $15 each.  They come complete with directions for installation.
