WTB: Amiga 4000 keyboard or Lyra adapter

[Darrin]

I use a PS2 adapter and PC keyboard with my A4000.  Check out Amigakit as they stock them:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=49&products_id=228

Works fine for me.

[Darrin]

terminator4 wrote:
the A2000 keyboard also works on A3000/4000 with proper adapter. ;-)

Which probably costs around the same as the Lyra.   :lol:

[Darrin]

Schoenfeld wrote:

That adapter can be a simple DIN<->mini-DIN adapter from the PC. It's the same pinning. Roughly 5 bucks if you can still find them (they were popular during the transition to ATX, mid-90s, but still manufactured today).

Jens

Actually, I might have a couple of them floating around in my office somewhere.  I'll stick to the Lyra though.  I have real Amiga keyboards on my A2000 & A3000, but the Minimig, A4000 and A1200Ts do ok with PC keyboards.

Edit:  I have to say that one of my pet hates is someone selling a big box Amiga and the keyboard in seperate auctions.  I mean, I know it makes sense to split up an Amiga for the best prices, but it is kicking the ass out of it when you strip it of the keyboard and mouse too.  /rant

[Darrin]

dougal wrote:
I bought it from someone locally , she had moved house and forgot the keyboard and the RGB cable at her old house

It's a nice machine to own, but it is rather cramped inside.  Quite a few CD/DVD ROMS are either too long to fit properly or crush the cables against the PSU and by the time you stack a couple of hard drives into the metal bracket then there isn't much space for air flow.

My internal SD/FF died just before I left home (monitor would lose and regain native signals constantly from the SDFF VHA port, but a CBM VGA adapter on the regular video port produced a solid, but ugly display - removing and reseating it didn't work) and I wouldn't be too suprised to find out that heat was to blame.  I'll pick up an Indivision 4000 when I get back and install that.

I think I'm going to pull the internal DVD drive and just put the blanking plate back as an external USB drive attached to the Deneb works just as well and allows easy installation of OS3.9 from OS3.1.  It will probably give the PSU a break too and help the cooling.  I can probably lose one of the 80GB hard drives too as 160GB storage is probably kicking the ass out of it.  :-D