Wanted: Amiga 4000D keyboard

[Will-i-am]

I have at this point in time nine computers. What's wrong with me?? Six are Amigas, though and that's good. I just set up my little render farm-to-be and started plugging in keyboards, monitors etc and all the Amigas work. Re the keyboard thing, why not use the Lyra adapter and any PC keyboard. Or, did you know that the A2000 keyboard will work on the A4000T? I have three A2000's and one A4000T so as I was moving things around I discovered that I had plugged in the A2000 keyboard into the tower. Seems to work just fine. That might make it easier to get your keyboard. Good luck.

[Will-i-am]

Well, I'm sitting next to my A4KT as we speak and I just checked the KB to see which I had plugged in and, yup, it says "A2000" on the KB and since I used it last night I have to say that it works. I tried plugging in an old IBM KB that I had from a couple of unix boxes I own and oh my, it did not like that very much at all. I tried typing in DH0: in opus and lots of 3's and such appeared and then the HD started flashing so I shut 'er down. My A4000D OS3.1 box is using a Compaq KB and Lyra adapter quite happily. My dedicated graphics A4000D OS 3.0 w/Cyberstorm PPC/060 is using it's original kb and the Compaq running Fedora Linux is using the aforesaid IBM kb. Don't know what I'm gonna do for the other 2 A2000's vis-a-vis kbs. They both have Toasters so I want to use them at some point but I've run out of room on the desk I built. Thougt about stacking them all on a rack system. I do have a Belkin KVM switch which I haven't tried yet so that may help....And to top it off I have the original A2000 vanilla model which by the way has all it's original equipment still running, original battery etc. Amazing beast. I love it. I just counted. 10 computers. I'm a sick man.

[Will-i-am]

Well I appreciate the heads-up. like I said, the thing started smoking and choking and coughing up blood but I stopped it before anything exploded. So I expect if I can just remember what it was I did I won't do it again. that's what happens when you got a pile of old 'puter parts and no notes taped to the side, like "NEVER PLUG INTO AN AMIGA!!" Yeah I like eBay as much as the next guy but when you get excited and start buying up parts it's always a good idea to have a plan. My plan was to start plugging in parts and make a movie. Shoulda thunk first. 8-)