Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: SX-64 keyboard to CPU cable
Message-ID: <3044@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 87 06:28:41 GMT
References: <1091@pbhyg.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 23
Keywords: SX-64

In article <1091@pbhyg.UUCP> marv@pbhyg.UUCP (Marv Gold) writes:
>A friend of mine just purchased an SX through a mail order clearing house.  The
>machine came without any cords or cables.  Now the power cord is no big deal, &
>has been taken care of, but the modified DB25 cable used for connecting the SX
>keyboard to the main unit has connectors that are undersized and one of them
>has a 90 degree bend to it.  We've pretty much tested the machine using the
>cable from my SX, and sending it back could mean never finding another.  SO,
>anyone out there (from Commodore or eslewhere) have any idea of how to obtain
>the PROPER cable (I'vemanaged to get him up and running by taking the covers
>off the ends of a regular DB25 and cutting away some of the metal (or was it
>plastic?) from the plugs themselves.  This seems kinda Mickey Mouse.

The service parts list still has a replacment cable listed, although I don't
know if they have any in stock.  The price is probably pretty high in relation
to what you paid for a liquidated SX64, so I'd harrass the outfit that sold
you the machine first...

250634-01  CABLE KEYBOARD  SX64  $40.00

-- 
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