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Article #21389Re: Extending the Keyboard Cable on 512e's
From: Joel B Levin
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1987 17:26
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1987 17:26
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In article <1987Nov5.092754.207@mntgfx.mentor.com> robb@mntgfx.mentor.com (Rob Bartel) writes:
:I have a shiny new roll-top computer desk that I like a lot. It really wants
:about a 12 foot long (extended length) keyboard cable that can be routed up
:around the back of the mac and plugged in.
:
:For reasons that I am sure are honorable ;-| reasons Apple chose to use
:connectors on the cable that are the same as telephone handset connectors,
:but to wire the cable up such that it is the reverse of the premade handset
:cables.
I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned ... but you can buy
extension cables, female connecter on one end, male on the other,
which transparently carry the four circuits without change. Why not
just get one and use it _with_ your current Apple cable?
/JBL
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!levin From: levin@bbn.COM (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Extending the Keyboard Cable on 512e's Message-ID: <4526@cc5.bbn.COM> Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 12:26:29 EST Article-I.D.: cc5.4526 Posted: Mon Nov 9 12:26:29 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 06:12:11 EST References: <1987Nov5.092754.207@mntgfx.mentor.com> Reply-To: levin@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 19