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From: slfields@uokmax.uucp (Scott L Fields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Keyboard Hack?
Message-ID: <1990May5.174832.14415@uokmax.uucp>
Date: 5 May 90 17:48:32 GMT
References: <56796@bu.edu.bu.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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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 IBM keyboard have a different scancode and transfer than the Amiga
so the only way you could get a IBM keyboard to work would be either to
reprogram the microcontroller in the keyboard itself or to built a converter
box on the outside that you plug the keyboard into and plug the box into the
amiga's keyboard port. Neither are simple or convienant.