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From: kamath@reed.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ADB cable
Message-ID: <9452@reed.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 88 19:07:14 GMT
References: <8806011543.aa16534@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <8806011543.aa16534@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> FFDDO%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>
>Does anyone know if there is a longer keyboard cable availible for the IIGS?
>My dealer says there is no such thing, and wants to know how far away from
>my machine I want to get...  Anyway, has anyone heard or seen of this
>product?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>David Oberhart

Failing everything else (or not, depending on price and your experience as a
person who might or might not go for this kinda thing. . .), just buy a
spare cable, got to your local wire seller and get some ten conductor (you
probably won't find 8, though that's what you really need) wire, with sheild
preferable, and hack the spare cable.  The wires inside are all color coded,
so you just connect black to black, etc, for all the wires.  Also, I'm pretty
sure the ADB cable is sheilded, so you can connect that as well.  Viola, one
227ft cable that probably *might* work (A definate maybe.).  Actually, i'd
be willing to bet you could get upwards of 20 ft. easy. But then, I never
tried it.

Sean Kamath
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