R40 with foreign keyboard

[pcengine92]

I have 2 R40 units. One of these (2681 model with 1.6 processor) has a standard keyboard, but with Chinese characters and a very short space bar. I would like to switch out the keyboard to a standard issue, but wanted to know if there would be any issues. I've taken this unit apart once before, so I can swap the keyboard out pretty easily.

[rkawakami]

You should not have any problems. Once you pull off the foreign language keyboard, use the HMM to determine exactly what you have.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-45899 (R40 HMM; page 165 has keyboard FRUs)

Could be Chinese, Japanese or Korean from the sounds of it.

[pcengine92]

Thanks for the reply!