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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: <1714@atari.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 89 17:38:09 GMT
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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.)

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