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Need Help With A1000 keyboard!
« on: December 01, 2007, 10:28:26 PM »
Ok, there's no real way to explain this easily, but here goes...

During the night, blasted out of my skull, I wanted to get my old A1000 up and running, only to discover that I have no cord for the keyboard, and that the mouse is missing a trackball. The mouse is no prob - gonna buy a new one, but I really don't feel like spending $80 on a new keyboard. So, the chemicals eventually got the better of me and I whipped out my trusty soldering Iron, which always means bad news,

To make a long story short, my Amiga is now lacking a keyboard port, but has 4 very long wires sticking out of it in its place. From what I can piece together from memory, I got the keyboard to do a hard reset, and some wires sparked,  but I have no idea which.

Anyone got a wiring diagram?
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Re: Need Help With A1000 keyboard!
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2007, 12:58:45 AM »
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Re: Need Help With A1000 keyboard!
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2007, 12:59:59 PM »
If you're thinking about doing some soldering then I have to warn you; each model have it's own plug configuration. There's no such thing as an Amiga keyboard interface pinout; nearly every model have it's own pin configuration (identical socket).

Which is a lesson I learned the hard way...

So make sure what you're looking at is the pin conf for the A1000 and not some other model(!).
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Re: Need Help With A1000 keyboard!
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2007, 01:30:26 PM »
AFAIR you could've used a simple telephone handset cord.
 

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Re: Need Help With A1000 keyboard!
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2007, 02:29:33 PM »