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re: keyboard

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From: knudsen%ihades.UUCP.UUCP
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 18:04
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To: coco@pucc.princeton.edu
Reply-To: m.j.knudsen@att.com (NEW ADDRESS)


>I would like to get an AT keydrv on the MM/1 so the system can reset the num/ca
 p
>lock for EACH window.  (And so the keyboard will reset)  However, the MM/1
>doesn't have the hardware to get the AT bits.  XT->AT has one more bit in the
>data stream that would potentially mess things up.  If anybody want to replace
>the shift register chip and give the AT a go... more power to ya!
>(the chip is the one beside the keyboard connector.)

If I remember right, the MM/1 has no shift register at all in
the Xmit direction, so cannot send to the keyboard at all.
This is main diff between XT and AT systems.

Sooo, hackers may have more work than you think.

Correct me if wrong (need I ask :-) -- mike k
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