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CHAPTER 4: Operation
4.3.12 S
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MULATION
Your shared keyboard must be an IBM PC type. In order for you to be able to
reproduce all of the keyboard-driven functions of your Mac CPUs, the ServSwitch
Jr. MP has to “map” some of the important keys on the Mac keyboard to keys on
the PC keyboard that are either duplicates of other keys or keys that are not used
in a Mac environment. (This is called “keyboard emulation.”) The Switch can map
the Apple keys in any of the three ways shown below and on the next page; use the
Set Apple Emulation command to select the mapping that’s appropriate for your
keyboard type and your user history.
To issue the Set Apple Emulation command, press and release the left Control
Key, type [E], and press the numeral key of your desired mapping number ([0],
[1], or [2]). (Use the number keys at the top of the keyboard,
not
those on the
numeric keypad.) Enter the Keep Settings command after you enter this
command.
[E][0]: Standard Mapping (104/105-Key Keyboard, PC Users)
If your keyboard was made within the last few years, chances are it’s one of the 104-
or 105-key keyboards with special keys (the left and right Start keys and the App
[Application] key) designed to trigger Windows 95/Windows 98 functions.
Because they have so many keys, these Windows keyboards can be mapped to
reproduce all of the keys on an Apple keyboard. And the factory-default keyboard
mapping for the ServSwitch Jr. MP assumes that the keyboard you will be using
with the Switch is, in fact, one of this type.
In its default state (equivalent to the [E][0] setting), the ServSwitch Jr. MP maps
the keys of the Windows 95 keyboard as shown below. PC users, especially those
who have used the 104/105-key keyboard for some time, will probably be
comfortable with this arrangement:
On the IBM PC 104/
Emulates this key
105-key keyboard,
on the Apple
this key:
keyboard:
Left Ctrl
Left Control
Left Windows Start (
)
Left Command (
)
Left Alt
Left Option (alt)
Right Alt or Alt Graph
Left Option (alt)
Right Windows Start (
)
Left Command (
)
Windows App (
)
Power (
)
Right Ctrl
Left Control
