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From: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: detachable keyboards and the A500
Message-ID: <1020@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 14:07:05 GMT
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Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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In article <721@super.ORG> rminnich@metropolis.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>In article <7087@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>One thought i had was to get another A500 case (price, anybody?)
>and saw it in two and move my A500 keyboard into it. THere is a REALLY
>SMALL cable from the A500 keyboard to the main board, so it should be no
>big deal. This was a common hack with the heath h*9 series of 
>terminals/computers, only there people REALLY DID saw their computer
>in two.
>#define REALLY SMALL (around eight wires or so)
>   Anyway, the A500 with just a little chainsaw work could have a 
>detachable keyboard.
>   In fact, maybe my brother could use the chainsaw when i was done ...
>visit the 'authorized repair shop' and have a little discussion...
>ron

Actually, there is probably an easier way to get a detachable keyboard; simply
buy an A2000 (well, make that B2000) keyboard, and a 5-pin DIN jack, and
kludge the DIN jack into your A500 someplace, and hook it up in place of the
internal wiring between the A500 internal keyboard & the motherboard.  This is
assuming, of course, that the keyboard decoder & interface is the same for
2000's and 500's, which it oughta be.

However, there is one minor caveat; a "spare" A2000 keyboard may be a
significant fraction of the price of an A500...

  - Mike Shawaluk   (now with his very own account!!!)