Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!ukma!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!imagen!atari!apratt From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: About Mega keyboard cables (was Re: (none)) Message-ID: <1714@atari.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 17:38:09 GMT References: <4818@brains.UUCP> <26@pell.uucp> <1709@atari.UUCP> <12102@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 23 walkerb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Brian Walker) writes: >The problem isn't too much of a task. I have seen kits for the crimp on >modular plugs for telephone cables at my local Radio Shack. Using a >standard telephone extension cable, Just cut off the end, peel, strip the >wires and crimp on a new piece. That should take care of it. In just a >few minutes, you would have a an extension for your keyboard. And >if you should ever get bored with it, you still have a perfectly usable >telephone extension cord. I didn't say it was hard, I said it was nontrivial. But the whole point is you DON'T have a telephone extension cord! You can't use a Mega keyboard cable as a phone cord, because the wires are all swapped around. (As it turns out, it DOES work, a little: I just tried using a phone with a Mega keyboard cable, and I got a dial tone. However, I couldn't dial using a Touch-Tone (tm) phone. I expect a rotary phone would work. I didn't test to see if the phone would ring.) ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt