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In article <1709@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>If that works, I'm really surprised.  The Megas I know of need a
>slightly different cable.  You have to turn one connector of a standard
>phone cable upside-down.  I know because I had to make my own once and
>I couldn't use a phone cable out of the box.  Maybe new Megas or old
>ones are the way you describe...

[...Useful diagrams...]

>If you buy the cable without the ends, you can make the Mega keyboard 
>kind easily.  If you don't, it's hard: the ends aren't made to be taken
>off & rearranged, they're made to crimp on once & stay forever. (TPC
>sure knows how to build to last: they didn't want to have to go back
>and do it again, back when they handled all repairs and we were just
>renting.)

The problem isn't too much of a task.  I have seen kits for the crimp on
modular plugs for telephone cables at my local Radio Shack.  Using a
standard telephone extension cable, Just cut off the end, peel, strip the
wires and crimp on a new piece.  That should take care of it.  In just a
few minutes, you would have a an extension for your keyboard.  And
if you should ever get bored with it, you still have a perfectly usable
telephone extension cord.
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Brian Walker, University of Colorado at Boulder
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