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In article <1d7chc8.ll7fbqnf4rijN@p44.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:

> Paul St George <paul@minument.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Can anybody help me?
> > 
> > I want to use a switch to do the same job as any one key on a Mac
> > Keyboard. What do I need to make or buy to put between this switch and
> > the keyboard or between the switch and the computer?
> > 
> > I am designing an art exhibition and I want people to input simple
> > information (one key) into the computer without using the keyboard or a
> > mouse.
> > 
> > If it is possible, I would like the key that is substituted to be the
> > Shift key or the Option key.
> 
> Complicated - you need to design a gadget to send the right numerical
> code down the ADB serial line.  You could maybe make a box for a Mac
> keyboard allowing access to one key only.  Alternatively, you might try
> taking a keyboard apart and connecting a lead to the pins for the shift
> (or option) key, and running that to a remote switch.
> 
> It might be that a commercial product to help you do what you want
> exists.  Maybe one of these multi-button mice could help?  It'd be
> fairly easy to wire in a remote switch to one of those, I'd've thought,
> and you can probably program that switch to be a shift (or option) key.
> 
> Rowland.
> 


Somebody once sold a box with simple input,output facilities and the
software to go with it. I dont know if it still available but you could
look. Using it would be very easy. I recommend you look in an american
online catalogue not a uk one because they tend have more of these odd
sort of products. Altenatively you could obtain a choicestick joystick
adapter. Then find software to accept inputs from it and then wire
something up to a standard nine pin joystick connector.


Good luck with this whatever you do. 

Angus

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Angus W Hardie
Hardie Associates        hardie@netcomuk.co.uk
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