IBM-PC keyboard for 6300 has anyone done this?
Dave Tutelman
dmt at mtunb.UUCP
Sun Nov 30 01:39:18 AEST 1986
In article <328 at neoucom.UUCP> wtm at neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>I don't think that merly rewiring the plug on an IBM keyboard
>is adequate to get it to work with the 6300. It looks like the
>baud rate is different to me, as I couldn't get it to work.
Actually, the whole protocol is a little different. A transposition
cable isn't enough to solve the problem.
>Two of
>our 6300s here have replacement keyboards. One machine has an AT&T
>version of the Keytronic 5151 which even comes with a db-9 on the
>end of the cord.
I've used the Keytronics. It's pretty nice, and I never noticed
any incompatibilities.
You might also try AT&T's new 302 keyboard, with better key placement
and size than the original 301. I'm using it right now.
>...
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>By the way, one of my older 6300's that was in the days of 256K and
>10 meg drives did indeed come with all the chips soldered to the
>board. The only socket in the machine was a blank one for the
>8087. We flamed the AT&T salesperson, who produced the AT&T memory
>expansion card to get it up to 512K. I was suprised when I
>observed that the AT&T memroy card has to go in one of the slots
>that has the short socket near the front of the machine, although I
>don't see any reason why you couldn't use one of the expansion
>cards for regular pc-compatibles.
Actually, the only reason is speed. The speed ordering is:
- FASTEST - on the motherbaord.
- SLOWER - The plug-in board from AT&T gives a wait-state on each
access.
- SLOWER STILL - Commercial plug-in boards using only the PC-bus.
They don't use the full 16-bit capacity of the 8086.
Remember that the PC and XT are 8088s with an 8-bit
data bus. Thus all their memory accesses are single bytes.
The 6300's speed advantage derives in part from a two-byte
data bus, with the extra byte on the "short socket".
>
> --Bill
>
>(wtm at neoucom.UUCP)
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