Service Department - Epson Equity III Product Support Bulletin

EPSON
EPSON AMERICA INC.

SERVICE DEPARTMENT

PRODUCT SUPPORT BULLETIN
DATE:
3/28/88
SUBJECT: EPSON
The purpose of this bulletin is
the compatibility
with the Equity I, Equity II and Equity III computers.
1. Keyboard
The enhanced
Equity I,
IBM's) requires
available in
It is possible,
keyboard such
Turbo-101,
early versions
Equity II
support
any
keyboard-select
The correct
Equity I:
Equity II:
EQUITY I/II/III
of third
Compatibility
"Plus" series keyboard cannot be used on an
Equity
II or III.
explicit
the earlier
however, to
as the IBM XT-101,
Keytronics 101,
of the Equity
(below serial
third
party
jumpers on
jumper settings
J2 and J3 jumpered
J3, J4 and J5 set for position 1
Once the above jumper changes
have been
use the
will result in damage to the
keyboard and Equity main board.
ENHANCED KEYBOARD
to provide
party enhanced
The enhanced Equity
ROM BIOS support
machines.
use a third-party
NorthGate
5150 and
I (serial
number 29875) were not designed to
keyboards (they
the main board).
for non-Epson
PLEASE NOTE
made, attempting
original Epson
NUMBER:
COMPATIBILITY
information
"AT" style
keyboard
which
"enhanced-style"
C/T-101,
5151. Please note that
numbers unavailable)
do not
keyboards are:
to
keyboard
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regarding
keyboards
(as with
is not
Datadesk
and
have any