Date   : Mon, 02 Nov 1992 15:27:06 GMT
From   : agate!spool.mu.edu!hri.com!noc.near.net!bigboote.WPI.EDU!wpi.WPI.EDU!lcurran@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Louis J. Curran Jr)
Subject: Re: Kaypro 4 keyboard

In article <1992Oct24.221804.25095@news2.cis.umn.edu> george@whale.micro.umn.edu
(Rogers George) writes:
>
>I discovered I don't have a working keyboard cable!
>
>The K-4 keyboard conection is a 4-position modular. I tried an old terminal
>(vt220 I think) keyboard cable I had laying around, then hacked it so the pins
>were straight through (pin 1 to 1, etc., UNlike telephone handset cords) and
>tried again. No go.
>
>What are the pin assignments for this puppy? Is just one* of the pairs
>reversed? are the inside and outside pairs swapped somewhere along the line?
>Did I fry my keyboard on the first try? (if so, what did I fry? can I fix it?
>does a kb like this exist anywhere else in creation?)
>

All Kaypro CPM machines use the telephone cable. You can use or borrow the
cable from any telephone handset. If your machine is dysfunctional, the
problem lies elsewhere.