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From: gmark@ihlpf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: Future of Coco
Message-ID: <2940@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 13:38:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 13:38:01 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 19:22:08 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Keywords: Coco OS9
Summary: Ooops.  Keyboard extensions for COCO.  Easy.  Fun. Educational.


From postnews Thu Dec  3 12:36:24 1987
>    be a stylish keyboard and a monitor.  I bought a surplus ADAM (tm) keyboard
>    that has some kind of serial interface, but I guess I will probably have to
>    rip it out and make my own.

To: ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtune!rutgers!rochester!bbn!husc6!uwvax!puff!kottke
Subject: Re: Future of Coco
References: <821@cblpf.ATT.COM> <1299@puff.wisc.edu>

Oops.  I got an ADAM Keyboard, and no, it's not serial, but I guess yours has
the driver chips and such.  Anyway, I think if you took off the stuff, you could
use the keyboard as I suggested.  It seems pretty nice, far superior to the
machine it was supplied with, (hence, the reason we have it cheap).  As far
as the cabling goes, the 15 conductor I have is pretty thin (~3/16" or less),
and I'm sure that since the sheathing it has is pretty stiff even when the
wire's removed, it could be even thinner and more flexible.  If you give a
call to several electronics supply places, I'll bet someone could provide
a nice, flexible, 15 conductor (or more) cable.  If you're bent on serial,
you could use the RS232 & a terminal.  Well, these are quick work-arounds.
If the goal, however, is to have a fun project, go to it.  Actually, I found
making a case that looked like it was purchased rather than hacked together
from the Radio Shack parts I actually used was by far the biggest job, what
with painting, bending, using the nibbler, etc..

				G. Mark (helpful) Stewart
				ATT-BTL Naperville, ix1G-266
				979-0914 ixlpq!gms