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From: kawakami@bigbang.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami)
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Subject: Re: Mounting ST in another case
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Date: 14 May 91 09:06:36 GMT
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Q: are all 17 wires needed from the 520 ST keyboard to the console?

A: No, only six or seven are.  The remainder are to connect the mouse
   to the keyboard controller.  If you can trace these wires out, you
   can build a mouse port and joystick port onto a small board and connect
   them that way.'

   ATDT 96427400
    
Comment:
   I don't think that moving the keyboard away this way is so hot after
   all.  I think a better alternative is to get an IBM keyboard interface.
   The PC keyboards are nicer, and have coily cables.
   I think such an interface would be easy to build: 2 uarts and some
   control logic.  The problem is, I don't know the PC keyboard's baud
   rate.

Q: does anyone out there know the PC keyboard baud rate?




John Kawakami                  kawakami@ocf.berkeley.edu
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