10 Jan
2001
10 Jan
'01
6:22 a.m.
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:39:20 -0500 Lawrence Walker
<lgwalker(a)look.ca> wrote:
> I thought the keyboard was a standard IBM
XT-compatible?
Nope. I have about a 1/2 dozen of the IBM PC/XT K-Bs.
Those
hefty beasts are my favorite k-b. Also a couple of the XT/AT switch
type. This Amstrad does have a 5-pin DIN, but the pins are
arranged differently than on the PC.
Oh dear, how embarrassing, I was completely wrong. I had a
look at the plug on the PC1512 at home, and of course it's
a six-pin DIN plug. The outer pins in 270-degree layout
and an extra pin in the centre. I worked with one of those
machines in about 1986/7 but I'd assumed (wrongly) that the
DIN plugs were standard.
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England