Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!boulder!tramp!walkerb From: walkerb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Brian Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: About Mega keyboard cables (was Re: (none)) Message-ID: <12102@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 26 Sep 89 20:21:33 GMT References: <4818@brains.UUCP> <26@pell.uucp> <1709@atari.UUCP> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: walkerb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Brian Walker) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 28 In article <1709@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes: >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... [...Useful diagrams...] >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.) 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. -- Brian Walker, University of Colorado at Boulder walkerb@tramp.colorado.edu ...!{ncar,nbires}!boulder!tramp!walkerb lim ENGINEERING = BUSINESS lim BUSINESS = ARTS AND SCIENCE GPA->0 GPA->0