brian@wolves.uucp (Brian Daniels) (06/29/90)
I am getting ready to put my 1040 ST into a better case and
would like to add a detached keyboard. I have heard that the Mega
ST keyboard can be used with some modifications.
I would appreciate any help on what specifically has to be done, and
also cost/sources of Mega ST keyboards in th US. (if there are any
other keyboards that will work, I'd appreciate hearing about them too...)
Thanks in advance,
Brian
Daniels
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
"posess yourself--or somebody else will
review yourself--you might find you're someone else"
the FIXX
Brian Daniels
(brian@wolves)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Scott Wood) (06/30/90)
I too, would be interested in adding an external keyboard to my 520 STfm, and I do not know much about the configuration of keyboards in general. I find that the semi-squareness of the keys and their close proximity to eachother makes it very hard to speed type. (maybe I am just sloppy, but I can type a lot faster on the digitals, macs, and HDS keyboards at school) swood -- OK, who farted? | swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu When you see Scott coming, | swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu you can just sense trouble | swood@nucleus.mi.org The Notorious Tre' | Scott Webster Wood
dclemans@mentor.com (Dave Clemans @ APD x1292) (07/02/90)
From article <1990Jun29.041619.16588@wolves.uucp>, by brian@wolves.uucp (Brian Daniels): > > I am getting ready to put my 1040 ST into a better case and > would like to add a detached keyboard. I have heard that the Mega > ST keyboard can be used with some modifications. > I would appreciate any help on what specifically has to be done, and > also cost/sources of Mega ST keyboards in th US. (if there are any > other keyboards that will work, I'd appreciate hearing about them too...) > Putting a Mega-ST keyboard on a 520-ST, 1040-ST, etc. is trivial. ALL that is needed is a cable adapter. (In fact I've seen a couple of Atari dealers selling a Mega-ST keyboard as a separate spare-parts kit, exactly for this kind of use. The price was around $130). Of the six wires coming from the Mega keyboard, two are power (+5v), two are ground, one wire is data from the keyboard, and one is data going to the keyboard. Connect those to the appropriate four pins on the ST motherboard and you're ready to go. I've done this to one of my systems, but I don't have exact details about pinouts with me. dgc