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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: About Mega keyboard cables (was Re: (none))
Message-ID: <1709@atari.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 89 22:58:35 GMT
References: <4818@brains.UUCP> <26@pell.uucp>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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orc@pell.uucp (david parsons) writes:

>On 21 Sep 89 12:39:37 GMT, george_seto@brains.UUCP (George Seto) wrote:
>Find a 6-wire telephone cord with modular jacks at each end.
>*poof* - instant cable.

If that works, I'm really surprised.  The Megas I know of need a
slightly different cable.  You have to turn one connector of a standard
phone cable upside-down.  I know because I had to make my own once and
I couldn't use a phone cable out of the box.  Maybe new Megas or old
ones are the way you describe...


Normal phone cable:

	------		     ------
	   1 |---------------|6
	   2 |---------------|5
	   3 |---------------|4
	   4 |---------------|3
	   5 |---------------|2
	   6 |---------------|1
	------		     ------

Mega Keyboard cable:

	------		     ------
	   1 |---------------|1
	   2 |---------------|2
	   3 |---------------|3
	   4 |---------------|4
	   5 |---------------|5
	   6 |---------------|6
	------		     ------

If you buy the cable without the ends, you can make the Mega keyboard 
kind easily.  If you don't, it's hard: the ends aren't made to be taken
off & rearranged, they're made to crimp on once & stay forever. (TPC
sure knows how to build to last: they didn't want to have to go back
and do it again, back when they handled all repairs and we were just
renting.)

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