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Offline dante

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Has anyone heard of a 6 PIN DIN AT connector?
« on: Sun, 26 June 2016, 12:45:16 »
Someone is selling NIB BTC 5100C keyboards on ebay but they use a 6 pin DIN connector.  I thought AT was 5 pin no?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BTC-Mini-Keyboard-5100c-New-/282059413098

edit: It looks pretty fat so that's why it looks "AT" to me.
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Re: Has anyone heard of a 6 PIN DIN AT connector?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 26 June 2016, 13:36:11 »
There are lots of DIN connectors such as MIDI. That center pin could cause a physical problem just plugging it in, even if the electrics were correct on the 4 that are actually active (or 5, in the case of that "refresh" or whatever it is on some XTs).
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Re: Has anyone heard of a 6 PIN DIN AT connector?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 26 June 2016, 13:44:02 »
There are lots of DIN connectors such as MIDI. That center pin could cause a physical problem just plugging it in, even if the electrics were correct on the 4 that are actually active (or 5, in the case of that "refresh" or whatever it is on some XTs).

Thanks for the feedback.  I've been eyeing these for a while but heard from more than one source that the AT model has a better feel than the PS/2.

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Re: Has anyone heard of a 6 PIN DIN AT connector?
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 28 June 2016, 16:25:32 »
Didn't the "Apple Desktop Bus" use 6-pin connectors?  Is this an old apple keyboard, specifically? 
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Re: Has anyone heard of a 6 PIN DIN AT connector?
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 28 June 2016, 17:50:18 »
Didn't the "Apple Desktop Bus" use 6-pin connectors?  Is this an old apple keyboard, specifically? 

ADB has 4 live pins and a plastic pin that is electrically dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus
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