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# Keyboard Interfacing Tips Inside!

The first chapter of the explanation of Pro/File’s inner workings is inside this issue and covers the INs and OUTs of hooking up an IBM PC keyboard. What’s more, the routines given here make it possible to use this keyboard with ANY Basic program. The facility is much like using a “print driver” for a big printer. You can think of this article as giving you a “keyboard driver”. You load it in, and type away. When I wrote this keyboard driver, I took special precautions to insure that it would run with the cassette version of Pro/File 2068. Let me tell you, it is NICE!