Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!grr 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 Lines: 28 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 but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)