Date   : Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:05:46 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: A new Element 14

2009/8/2 Michael Firth <mfirth@...>:

> He has a picture of an A440 with a red keyed keyboard, but on reading the
words properly, he says the keyboard's from an A310.

Easily done because they're all interchangeable.

All the internal A30x0 keyboards are the same too, so you could put an
A3010 keyboard into an A3020 or even an A3000. All the A3010's keys
are a different colour though, the non-function keys have a bluish
tint to the grey, where the others have a slightly beige tint.
Unfortunately the only faulty one I've ever had is an A3000 which
freezes up after a while - not worth investigating though because I've
got a small stack of A3000s with vandalised keyboards, so I'll just
make one working one from some parts. I once liberated an A3010 out of
a skip, it had Pot Noodle congealed all over it but it soon cleaned up
and is in perfect working order.

The 3000's also got a non-fitted internal pin header marked
"Alt.Keyboard" - I've always wondered if this was for connecting up a
6-pin mini DIN socket for an external keyboard,

-- 
Alex Taylor