Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!blake!dlarson From: dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 2000 keyboard in a 500 Keywords: keyboard Message-ID: <3212@blake.acs.washington.edu> Date: 13 Aug 89 20:58:51 GMT References: <3210@blake.acs.washington.edu> <7648@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) Organization: The Evergreen State College, WA Lines: 46 In article <7648@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >Come on, we did put this infomation in the A500 user's manual just so I >wouldn't have to be looking it up. My most sincere appologies - I looked very carefully at the 2000 manual for info on how the keyboard is hooked up, but found none. I should not have assumed that the 500 manual had no such information. Thank you very much for the reply, especially in the face of my failing to adequately RTFMs. >It goes clock/data/reset/+5/key/ground/ >power/floppy... Pin numbering in the DIN connecter is questionable, but >that goes spare/data/clock/power/ground. > >If you get data and clock wrong, you'll get a stream of quote characters. >If you get power and ground wrong, you'll get a stream of acrid smoke. Well, I didn't get any acrid smoke, but I also didn't get to type with the 2000 keyboard. After several days of using a 500 without it's cover and intermintently firing up the soldering iron, I think I've given up on the whole deal. For anyone else who might be trying, here is what I have found DOESN'T work: 500 keyboard connector (viewed from front of machine) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ---------------------- 3 1 4 5 /* What I THINK Mr. Robbins said */ 3 1 4 5 /* A goof based on what I thought Mr. Robbins said */ 1 2 3 4 5 /* a bad guess */ Female 5-pin din connector (as numbered on RatShack cat no 274-005b) Besides the fact that my class work (programming) is suffering way too much from these lame attempts at hardware hacking, I guess that if I want an external keyboard and/or room to put junk inside the machine then I should buy a 2500 in order to help pay for Messrs. Haynie and Robbins, et al to work on the neat new machines :-) The main problem is that 1000+500 (my two Amigas) only = 1500. -- dTb dTb I know enough about epistemology to know that I don't know anything about programming OR epistemology! Digital Teddy Bear dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu