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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Keyboard Hack?
Message-ID: <11380@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 May 90 11:14:50 GMT
References: <56796@bu.edu.bu.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <56796@bu.edu.bu.edu> fbueller@bucsf.bu.edu (Peter Sherman) writes:
> 
> 	Greetings netland! I have a problem, and I hope some kindly hacker
> out there could help me. I recently aquired a used Amiga 1000, and as you
> can probably guess, no keyboard. But I bought an interesting little device
> which allows me to use a 2000 keyboard. But, the 2000 keyboard costs more
> than I paid for the computer, and so I'd like to use an IBM keyboard, since
> the connector appears to be pin compatible. I'd like to know if an IBM
> keyboard could be attached to this, and if not, if there are there any
> hardware/software hacks which I could use to do this. I heard that the
> Amiga 2000 keyboard has its' own chips to encode information.

The technology is similar to that used in IBM keyboards, but the encoding and
possibly handshaking details differ.  Unless you are able to reprogram the
microcontroller in your "IBM" keyboard, I don't see that as a real alternative.

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