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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Commodore 128D
Message-ID: <7846@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 16:47:55 GMT
References: <25438@genrad.UUCP>
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <25438@genrad.UUCP>, pcr@genrad.com (Perry Rothermel) says:
> Keywords: 1571 - 64k video ram

> Also, the keyboard cord could be a little more flexible or made of "phone 
> cord".

No it couldn't.  The C128D keyboard is still scanned by the 8502, just like
on the C128.  That takes almost 25 wires to accomplish.  Most of the 
computers with thin keyboard cables, like the Amiga, have a separate CPU
(a 6500/1 in the case of the Amiga) that do the keyboard scanning, and 
communicate to the host machine via a two wire serial interface.

-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests"
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