joseph@garfield.UUCP (Joseph Dawson) (01/22/88)
I love the A2000 keyboard but don't have the money to buy an A2000
for that reason. Can you buy A2000 keyboards and can you then plug
them into your A1000? (If I had an A500 I would think that I would
want to be able to plug in an A2000 keyboard as well. Just try and lay
an A500 on your lap with MODEM, PRINTER, ETC, pluged in!)
Joseph Dawsongrr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (01/24/88)
In article <4418@garfield.UUCP> joseph@garfield.UUCP (Joseph Dawson) writes: > > > I love the A2000 keyboard but don't have the money to buy an A2000 > for that reason. Can you buy A2000 keyboards and can you then plug > them into your A1000? (If I had an A500 I would think that I would > want to be able to plug in an A2000 keyboard as well. Just try and lay > an A500 on your lap with MODEM, PRINTER, ETC, pluged in!) The A2000 keyboard will no doubt be available as a service part at some point in the future, but I suspect supplies are pretty minimal at this point, as they're all going into production systems... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|ihnp4|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) (01/24/88)
Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* joseph@garfield.UUCP (Joseph Dawson) wrote: ... ... ... I love the A2000 keyboard but don't have the money to buy an A2000 ...for that reason. Can you buy A2000 keyboards and can you then plug ...them into your A1000? Really? Hey if you figure that one out, I will be glad to trade you the 2000 stupid keyboard for a 1000 board. I like a laptop keyboard and the 2000's is *not* laptopable (<-new word invention going on!) ... Joseph Dawson -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)222-7595 spencer@mica.berkeley.edu I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)222-9416 ..ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e AAA-WH1M -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (01/26/88)
in article <4418@garfield.UUCP>, joseph@garfield.UUCP (Joseph Dawson) says: > I love the A2000 keyboard but don't have the money to buy an A2000 > for that reason. Can you buy A2000 keyboards and can you then plug > them into your A1000? (If I had an A500 I would think that I would > want to be able to plug in an A2000 keyboard as well. Just try and lay > an A500 on your lap with MODEM, PRINTER, ETC, pluged in!) > Joseph Dawson I very much doubt that A2000 keyboards are available separately as yet, they're using every one made for new A2000s. I expect that they will eventually be available as a normal replacement part from CBM Service. Connecting an A2000 keyboard to an A1000 is simply a matter of building yourself a 5 PIN DIN to Phone Jack adaptor; the electrical signals are identical. It's possible you could hook up an A2000 keyboard to the A500s parallel port, though this would at the very least require some driver software. The parallel port has a synchronous serial connection available that's very similar to what's reading your keyboard normally. You wouldn't be getting a C-A-A response, though, since that's done in hardware. The only real difficult part would be if the part of the Parallel Port CIA chip that controls the parallel port's serial shift register is being used by any other software in the system. If it is, you may be in trouble, if not, the driver program would be pretty simple. -- Dave Haynie "The B2000 Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {ihnp4|uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy "I can't relax, 'cause I'm a Boinger!"