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Redirecting TurboSport video

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From: Dick O'Connor
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 15:57
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I'm trying to help out a Zenith TurboSport 386 owner over the phone, and
I'd appreciate any help I can get on one of his questions.  He owns a 12
MHz TurboSport with 40 MB hard disk, a 3.5 inch floppy and VGA video, and
runs an external EGA monitor out the back using a "pigtail" cable, which
sounds like a simple 9 pin-to-15 pin adapter.  Video is shunted to the
external monitor with the sequence '<Fn><F10>', where '<Fn>' is a specially
labelled key on the TurboSport keyboard.  Now he'd like to use a replacment
101-key keyboard for desktop use.  It works fine except that he no longer
has a <Fn> key.

Question: How does he redirect the video out the back port using a standard
101-key keyboard?  I had him try MODE CO80, apparently without success.

I appreciate any leads or advice you can offer!

"Moby" Dick O'Connor                            ** The only difference between
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From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Redirecting TurboSport video
Keywords: TurboSport 386, video, Fn key
Message-ID: <6298@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 90 15:57:41 GMT
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Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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