Re: Peanut / Apple II Clone

[toddpw@ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

"rollinson" <rollinson@email.msn.com> writes:

>The machine has no lead connecting the main board to the keyboard. As far as
>I can work out the keyboard connector on the main board looks like a normal
>chip socket labeled 'keyboard'. There is nowhere else on the board that
>could be a keyboard connector.
>I need to know the pin-outs of both ends of the cable so that I can build my
>own and hopefully get the machine working.

What does the connector on the keyboard look like?

If they are both 16 pin chip sockets, then you just need to buy a 16 pin
ribbon cable with IDP headers on each end (meaning they have pins like a 16
pin DIP IC). Any good electronics store (though maybe not Radio Shack) should
carry these cables or the parts necessary to make them.

Keyboard cables on the Apple ][+ (and probably the Apple ][ before it) were
built this way. I made extra-long replacement keyboard cables for my original
][+ many moons ago.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ ugcs.caltech.edu