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From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Homebrew Cables
Message-ID: <0766.AA0766@americ>
Date: 17 Jun 89 11:00:26 GMT
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From: protcoop@leibniz.uucp Message-ID: <609@bnr-fos.UUCP>

>I want to extend my external disk drive cable but I wonder how long
>I can make the thing without degrading performance in any way.  Has
>anybody out there tried this?  I want to do it so I can program with
>my A500 on my lap, the way I used to do with my 1000.  Also, I have
>a monitor that has an cable coming right out of the back of it.  The
>cable goes into an IBM CGA card.  The RGB port on the AMIGA seems to
>have the pins I need (R,G,B,I, Horiz, Vert, GND).  I want to make a
>cable to be able to use this monitor.  Has anyone tried this.  I took
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   Maybe this isn't what you want to hear but why not yank the keyboard
out of the plastic frame and make a simple 7 (8,9?) wire extension
cable to hook the keyboard to the A-500 ?? *OR* if you have the extra
bucks lying around for projects like this see if a B-2000 keyboard
will work with it, sounds much cleaner :-)

	Seems to me that this would be much more preferable to slinking 
numerous cables down the side of your desk whilst you type (I've
got 11 cables running out of this da*n thing !!). The keyboard is
a simple (probably ascii) converter that takes a keystroke and 
translates it into a parallel converted word. As such it is merely
laid into the A-500 frame with a small cable (only one) that hooks
it to the motherboard. 

	I've been toying with this idea myself :-)

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