Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!helios!tamuts!n368bq From: n368bq@tamuts.tamu.edu (Raoul Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Keyboards? A500 replacements?, 2 on one machione? Keywords: hmmmmm.. It'd be neaat. Message-ID: <11361@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 20 Jan 91 01:18:42 GMT References: <11346@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University Lines: 19 news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu writes: >Well the "cable" is about 6 little wires (More? Less?) that are >Firmly into the keyboard part, but "snap" on to 6 little pins on the >mother board, It seems it'd be easy to make an extender. >But then ya'd have a Hole in ya 500... >oh. there's a "thick" ground cable bolted from thekeyboard to the >disk drive. (ANit-static?, or just a Ground? May be important...) Are these "six little pins" simialr to the average phone line? And also when the keyboard is removed, does it stay together, or does it need something to hold it togther? And does anyone know what the "maybe important" ground wire does? TIA (thanks in Advance) Raoul Rodriguez "Several errant electrons jumped when they shouldn't have at a place they shouldn't have, resulting in what shouldn't have. In short, a short." -Bloom County