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- From: sal@pacdata.uucp (Sal Quintanilla)
- Subject: XT-1000 XT Keyboard-to-A1000 Cable
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.202040.8506@pacdata.uucp>
- Organization: Pacific Data Products
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:20:40 GMT
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- I bought this connector from a swap meet. It's an RJ-11 (or
- RJ-22, or whatever the 4-contact telephone-type connector is
- labeled) connected to a 5 pin din socket. At the time, I
- couldn't open it up, but I bought it (I didn't mind losing $3.00
- too much) and opened it, and it's nothing more than a straight
- connection (i.e. no "diode/inverter signal massagers").
-
- The person selling them (along with other legitimate Amiga
- peripherals) said that it had to be an XT keyboard.
-
- Should this cable work? Is the XT keyboard that electronically
- close to the A1000 keyboard?
-
- For what it worth, it's connected as follows:
-
- 3 . 2 <-> Black
- 2. . 4 3 <-> Green
- 1 . Back . 5 4 <-> Yellow
- 5 <-> Red
- .
-
- Unfortunately, I don't have an XT keyboard handy to just try it.
- I did try an IBM PC keyboard, and clumps of characters were being
- written to the CLI as I typed (but not the characters I typed, and
- only 3-4 different characters total, despite the different keys I
- hit).
-
- So what do you think: Fact or Fiction?
-
- Thanks.
- Sal
-