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Backwards Keyboard cable.. NOT!!!
Posted by: jimjimx on 2017-08-15 18:58:28 So, I see my old telephone sitting there, and decide to find out the fact..... I pull out my early Macintosh keyboard cable (128k, 512k, Plus). I pinned out both of them, and it was the telephone hand set cable that was backwards... Apple has the standard pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2 to pin 2, etc.. AT&T has pin 1 to pin 4, pin 2 to pin 3, and the like... This is even backwards from the RJ-11 that they use to connect the phone to the wall jack. So, it's AT&T Bell Labs that has the backwards cable, and we can all stop saying that Apple has a backwards cable!
Posted by: unity on 2017-08-15 19:15:03 In all the years, I never head that Apple has it backwards. Just that its backwards of a handset cable. Which is true.
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