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Re: Adding a new key to a wireless ADB keyboard?
- Subject: Re: Adding a new key to a wireless ADB keyboard?
- From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:03:19 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: DiS(L)organized
- References: <cimujc$p9a$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca> <90F3d.39$36n1.2@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com> <RnG3d.29214$t61.2697@clgrps13>
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In article <RnG3d.29214$t61.2697@clgrps13>,
Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote:
>
>There was a bit of discussion on Mac groups about this keyboard a while
>back. The reset key starts a Mac by shorting the 5 volt to ground. The
>reciever has a passthrough connector so solution on Macs is to make a
>device with a short piece of ADB cable that has a button to short those
>pins. This doesn't seem work as a substitute for the reset key on the
>IIgs as holding down the Control and Apple keys while shorting those to
>pins apears to do nothing.
You need to short Pin 2 (reserved) to ground (Pin 4), not Pin 3 (+5v)
to Pin 4.
However, it is not certain that this will work on the IIgs, as the key
sends a keycode as well as shorting pin 3.