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From: anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Franklin Anthes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Using IBM keyboard on A2000
Message-ID: <1467@geocub.greco-prog.fr>
Date: 13 Nov 89 08:41:38 GMT
Reply-To: anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Franklin Anthes)
Organization: Greco-Programmation, Bordeaux, France.
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Disclaimer: before everbody thinks I'm completely crazy for wanting to
           to use a keyboard with a whacko lay out, when a perfectly
	   nice one comes with the machine, let me explain.

I would like to use the A2000 in an embedded aplication, where you need
a real rugged key board! Now I know suppliers who make keyboards that 
you can drive a truck over, and they still work, but the problem is
the interface is for IBM XT, or AT type machines.

I am not a hardware type, so I'm appealing to the net's collective
technical expertise to help me out on this one!

Can I hook one of these keyboards up to an A2000? What mods. are
necessary? 

I don't care if the scan codes coming out of the key board are compatible.

-- 

	Frank Anthes-Harper :  Bien le bonjour de la France
	anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr