Re: Adding a new key to a wireless ADB keyboard?

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:RnG3d.29214$t61.2697@clgrps13...
> Glenn Jones wrote:
>
> > The reset key is the one that lets you power a Mac up correct? So does
that
> > mean that this keyboard would not work for older mac's like the LC575
that
> > need that key to power on?
>
> 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.
>
> For a IIgs if no other solution came up and you didn't want two
> keyboards attached, you could remove the circuitboard from something
> like the Apple Design keyboard which uses about a 2" x 5" board and
> use that to generate the reset signal.
>
> Wayne

Hmmm... interesting approach.  Rather than buying an Apple Design keyboard,
do you think I could just hack an old IIgs keyboard to make a
button-on-a-cable that would do the reset signal?  Never opened a IIgs
keyboard so I don't know if that's really possible.

Currently I just keep 2 keyboards attached and smack the reset on the wired
keyboard when I need to do a three-fingered salute.  That works fine for my
purpose as all I really want is a keyboard I can use at a distance without
having a cable snaking across the desk.  Reaching to reset once in a while,
although sucky, is possible.  Although having a secret reset button attached
to the underside of my desk would be kind of cool.  :-)

Thanks
Tim