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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 wouldn't recommend direct keyboard or mouse wiring as back voltage
surges may fry your Mac via the ASB port.

The old 32k BBCB computers frequently controlled external mechanicals via
the RS serial port using a tiny BASIC recipe and an *FX command.
Unfortunately, computer magazines nowadays (there speaks an old-timer)
only contain adverts and puffs for elephantine software and no-one hacks
their own utilities any more. MacBasic probably won't run on the new
all-singing and all-dancing Macs anyway.

One solution would be to use the freeware comms software Zterm and set up
a handshaking 'Hi, there' routine with an interface via the modem port.
However, you will need someone with greater capacitance between the
earphones than I have to configure the circuitry for you.

On second thoughts, perhaps you could use a MIDI interface and get it to
sing at the same time. :-)

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