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- Remoting the Exidy Sorcerer keyboard.
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- 1. The keyboard may be mounted via 16 core cable.
- Or 16 strand ribbon cable, like mine.
- If using 16 core, be sure to get the colors .
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- 2. The cable on my system is 2 meters long.
- The keyboard buffer handles it nicely.
- I haven't gone to extremes with the max
- length possible as I think one can bury
- a noisy expansion unit far enough with 2 m.
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- 3. I am also looking at a few layouts for mounting
- my particular setup.2 Micropolis.1 cassette.
- 1 GP-80.3 cassette storage units.and natch,
- Sorcerer,expansion,screen.
- Not forgetting the Dataphone.
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- 4. DOING IT.
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- You will need:
- 1.cable
- small piece of verro board. 7 tracks.
- 2. 1 x female 14 pin ic socket.
- 3. 1 x male 14 pin ic plug.
- Are you handy with a soldering iron ?
- If so you can most likely do the hookup
- yourself.
- If not drop me a line, I have a friend
- who hooked mine up as a crissy presy.
- 2.Are you handy with woodworking ?
- If so you could probably build the box too.
- If not, drop me a line and I'll see how I'm
- fixed for time.
- 4.a few bits of 2x1. 1.5 meters.
- 5.a piece of 1/8 3 ply. 1.5 sq m.
- The keyboard:
- My keyboard is 51cm x 23.5cm x 5.5cm and
- is at an angle of 10 degrees.
- It feels comfortable, but 13 or even 15
- degrees may be better. May even be able to
- reduce the overall mesurements a few cm.
- Not forgetting that the greater angle on the
- keyboard results in a deeper unit.
- Support of the keyboard is front, back
- and sides.
- The cable leadout is at the top, but there
- is no reason why the cable can't wander
- down thru the cutout corner and emit
- down the bottom.
- If you wanted to get fancy, you could
- have a 16 pin socket on the back or side
- and have a neat stand alone unit.
- Want to get really fancy ?
- Run the other 2 lines from the led at the
- back of the computer motherboard.
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- DO NOT RUN 240V AS A REMOTE ON OFF SWITCH !!
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- It would be most expensive, maybe even fatal
- to do so.
- The led on the keyboard would be a handy
- power on indicator, as well as a visual
- aid for the cassette loading operation.
- The keyboard facia:
- If you are doing this bit yourself, it
- is strongly recomended you get a paper
- template of your keyboard.
- I got my patern from the case of the computer
- and it turned out a bit lose.
- The facia can be flattened off at the top
- of the keyboard to provide a handy little
- storage area.
- The actual making of the box is a bit tricky, unless
- you're a paternmaker or something.
- As the saying goes, 'The first one 'ect.
- It might even be a good idea to line the
- box where possible with thin foam rubber.
- Helps to cut down on the clunky sound.
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- Well .. That's about it.
- If I've forgotten something, drop me a line.
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- Yours. Ian Gray.
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