10 Jun
1997
10 Jun
'97
6:13 p.m.
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:47:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com>
Subject: C64 thingy
I picked up a Commodore 64 a while ago that had this
special board
inside. It was inserted between the keyboard and the motherboard. IE.
it had a connector that plugged into the keyboard rolex connector on the
motherboard and then the keyboard ribbon cable plugged into it. Then it
had a 9-pin male D-type connector than came out the back of the C64. My
guess is that it was for a numeric keypad or something. I forgot what
was stamped on the circuit board. Any ideas?
Sounds like a keypad connector to me, I think it may be a Cardco
keypad (there I think was an option to plug it into the joystick port
and interface it via software.
I have some other brand which uses a DIP connector (like old apple
paddle/joysticks), unfortunately I do not have the 64 with the interface
board though.
Larry Anderson
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