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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 2000 keyboard in a 500
Keywords: keyboard
Message-ID: <7648@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 89 16:28:39 GMT
References: <3210@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3210@blake.acs.washington.edu> dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) writes:
> /*  I thought that all the line eaters were dead.  */
> 
> For reasons to numerous to numerate, I am putting junk into a 500 that 
> necessitates removal of the keyboard, but have a 2000 keyboard that I
> want to connect...
> 
> Could someone PLEASE tell me what each pin on the 500 motherboard keyboard
> connector is?  Could someone (possibly the same someone mentioned
> above) tell me which of these need to be connected to which pins on
> the female din connector??? 

Come on, we did put this infomation in the A500 user's manual just so I
wouldn't have to be looking it up.  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.

Note that the 3-finger reset won't work between the A2000 keyboard and
the A500, since the A500 assumes a direct reset signal from the keyboard,
while the A2000 does some clever manipulation of the clock/data lines...

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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