Re: 9100 keyboard...

From: Kev <KKlopp_at_erols.com>
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 09:04:18 EST

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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I belive someone mentioned that a Sun or Wyse
terminal keyboard may be similar or close or usable but I don't have free access
to any of those (and they seem to be rather pricey).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kev</FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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  style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
  <A title=mark@basementarcade.com href="mailto:mark@basementarcade.com">Mark E
  Davidson</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=techtoolslist@flippers.com
  href="mailto:techtoolslist@flippers.com">techtoolslist@flippers.com</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 28, 2003 2:48
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  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: 9100 keyboard...</DIV>
  <DIV><BR></DIV>Just for shits and giggles... as anyone ever tried an Amiga
  keyboard?<BR><BR>John Robertson wrote:<BR>
  <BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid5.2.0.9.2.20030327201335.044edc18@flippers.com
    type="cite">Further to that...well it seems the Y1700 is not wired the same
    as the Programmers Keyboard, it does not match the +5 (that wire is actually
    cut short at the keyboard end) and thus when I hooked up the +5 to the
    keyboard it did NOT do the EDIT mode at all. Just seems to send junk, might
    not be the right baud rate or scan codes at all. Rats. Back to the terminal
    I guess...<BR><BR>Next project is to try some of the spare SCSI drives I
    picked up to experiment with on this system. It would be nice to figure out
    the SCSI upgrade some day...our 20 meg drives will die sooner or
    later...<BR><BR>John :-#)#<BR><BR><BR>At 07:44 PM 27/03/2003 -0800, John
    Robertson wrote:<BR>
    <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">In my adventures with the 9100,
      I did manage to find a Fluke keyboard on Ebay - but it is not the
      Programmers Keyboard. Instead it is a model Y1700. It has the correct 5
      pin DIN plug and it does allow the 9100 to trip into EDIT mode, however it
      has no affect at all on the system - seems to not be the correct code or
      baud rate or whatever. Oh, and it's crystal is a 2.0000 MHz.<BR><BR>Now it
      uses a 8748 (U3 V1.0 #718171) and I was hoping that someone here with a
      Programmers Keyboard could open theirs up and see if they use the same
      chip, and if so they could read it and send me a copy to play
      with.<BR><BR>I really don't have enough space to set up a terminal every
      time I want to use the 9100 in EDIT mode in the shop and, well heck, this
      <B><I><U>is</U></I></B> a technical challenge after all ;-)<BR><BR>John
      :-#)#<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

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