Black Box SW627A-R2 E0 Standard Mapping 104/105-Key Keyboard, PC Users, Operation, On the IBM PC

CHAPTER 4: Operation

4.3.12SET APPLE EMULATION

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

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