Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ndsuvax!ncreed
From: ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (Walter Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: detachable keyboards and the A500
Message-ID: <1252@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 00:13:18 GMT
References: <8808060100.AA11069@jade.berkeley.edu> <3550@cadnetix.COM> <877@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <2605@sugar.uu.net> <7087@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (Walter Reed)
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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In article <7087@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <2605@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>>OK, think of the Amiga 500 as on oversized detachable keyboard that happens to
>>have an Amiga in it.
>        ...With zillions of cables coming out of it.
>#define        zillions        more than two
>        When I was using my 64, I found placing it in my lap was rather
>awkward.  I suspect the same is true of the 500.  While it's nice that it's
>mobile, it's tough to beat a lightweight keyboard with just one coily cord
>coming out of it.
Ok, I have the soulution to this! :-) :-)

What you do is make a hardware module that plugs into all the connectors on
the back of a 500 (or an L shaped one that plugs into the expansion connector
too.)  This module converts all the ports into one fiber optic cable.  This
cable has power wires in it too and is curly!  On the other end of the cable,
you have a fiber optic -> port converter box (and optional zorro II expansion
box) and there you go!  Portable keyboard (with lots of smarts!)

Some enterprising person could probably make this for, oh, about the price
of an a2000...  Not too bad...
(-: (-:

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