badbrad Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 Is it possible to put an 800 keyboard on a 400? or is the 800 wider than the 400? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 The case is entirely different (the 400 is about the same width as the 800's Ram cover). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 Of course, there's always those 800-style keyboard overlays. I see an 400 for sale with one of those mods every month or two on eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 There's a couple of those at least...one that was a sheet of rubber keys that you placed on top of the membrane (worthless), and one that had an actual keyboard that sat on top of the membrane (dunno). Was there ever a replacement keyboard made that didn't use the membrane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbrad Posted May 20, 2003 Author Share Posted May 20, 2003 Was there ever a replacement keyboard made that didn't use the membrane? Thats the question I was trying to ask! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 It seems that there was once a mod outlined in Creative Computing for doing this (or so it seems). Probably involved wiring a "dumb" terminal keyboard to the computer some way... http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/ind...obert+Noskowicz Sorry...I don't have that issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 Here's a document for wiring an Atari 1200XL keyboard to any Atari 8-bit: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/pairman/...n/1200xlkb.html And a full-stroke keyboard marketed by Inhome called the B Key 400, that served as a complete replacement for the membrane: http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n...e_of_genius.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 I have a B-Key 400 that's also upgraded to 48K. Really nice. Apparently at some point it was cheaper to do this than buy an 800. There were some external keyboards also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted May 21, 2003 Share Posted May 21, 2003 Yeah, in the early 80's a 16k Atari800 would run something like $800. IIRC the 400 would be half that amount Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 I had a souped up 400 at one point as well. I know the keyboard I put in replaced the previous membrane keyboard. Not sure if it was the b-key though. The keys tended to stick a little since they were so close (and a little on the mushy side) but it sufficed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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