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- From: J. E. Sears <cindysimms@delphi.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: PET Keybd & SX-64 KBD Cable
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 22:26:46 -0500
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- J. E. Sears <cindysimms@delphi.com> writes:
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- >The SX64 uses a standard C64 keyboard except for the little lite on the
- >cap lock key. You should be able to make one with a stock keyboard and
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- OOps, that was a mistake. looking again the SX uses a special keyboard
- with 21 wires versus 18 on a stock C64, it is likely that one is a
- ground to shield the cable from RF emissions and 1 or 2 to run the
- little lite on the shift lock key. On the stock C64 16 wires
- control all the keyboard functions except restore. 8 send 0 and
- 8 read, combos get all the letters and mnumbers. That is why you can
- hard wire in a number pad to the C64 that needs not software to translate.
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- >cap lock key. You should be able to make one with a stock keyboard and
- >a 20 pin male header from Digikey, a 20 wire ribbon cable and a Sud D
- >25 pin connector like the one on your SX64. May not be as nice as
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