Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!portal!atari!apratt 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 Lines: 45 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.) ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt