More fiddling around, it seems that the timing for the AD conversion is somehow inconsistent, and setting the conversion delay to a very high value actually makes the online and lf buttons usable.

It also seems that data sent by the Apple parallel interface card doesn't bother to check the acknowledge, it just hits the strobe, so there isn't any flow control.

There's still some characters being dropped by the ap2000, haven't been able to figure that out yet.

I added some blinkenlights to show writes to the portABC and C000-C00F, and it helps to see what's going on. Man, I love blinkenlights.

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