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Bring to your attention an article from the ON LINE on
zonovskom controller keyboard and mouse, which continues a
series of articles devoted to the well-known "brand" hardware
developments. Article published quite a long time, so the
controller may inessential changes.
Article published unabridged.
CONTROLLER
IBM-compatible keyboard and mouse for each
computer type ZX-SPECTRUM
How to work and connect V 2.0
(C) Company SCORPION 'SCORPION CLUB
1. DESIGNATION
The controller is designed to connect to
SCORPION ZS computer or another
Spectrum-compatible PC standard
IBM-compatible XT or AT keyboard and mouse
Microsoft or passive. Keyboard Layout
corresponds to the layout for the HT / AT: Latin QWERTY
QWERTY and Russian. The driver supports Russian
layout for the most popular text
Editors: ZX-WORD, TLW2, iS-DOS (the choice-of
function keys). Determining the type of
Keyboard (XT or AT) - automatically. Mouse
Microsoft and passive driver converts formats
data into a format Kempston Mouse, which allows
use programs written for this mouse.
Determining the type of mouse - automatically. In addition,
both types of mouse can switch to emulation mode
KEMPSTON, SINCLAIR, CURSOR, INTERFACE 2 Joystick
(Choice of function keys) is possible mode
AUTOFIRE, control-click MAGIC. Provided
function PAUSE, providing a temporary shutdown
(WAIT) computer. The key combination Ctrl + Alt + Del
is a system reset. Constructively
controller is the PCB size
120h68 mm. Supply Controller Keyboard
current not exceeding 400 mA.
2. Connecting the controller
The controller has 5 connectors:
- X1 - 5-pin for IBM-Keyboard
(Table 2)
- X2 - 10-pin male connector for mouse
Microsoft (Table 3)
- H3/H4 - System 60-pin connector for a
connecting to the system connector of your computer SCOR
PION ZS (Table 1)
- X5 - 10-pin male connector for a
PROCEDURE controller to data lines of regular clusters
viatury ZX and button MAGIC (Table 4)
- X6 - 10-pin male connector for connection
of passive mice (Table 5)
mouse pass.
° ° ° ° ° ° X2
° ° ° ° ° ° X6
IBM Mouse
° ° ° ° ° ° X5
to the keyboard.
AT / XT
KEY
January 1930
Table 1. System connector SCORPION ZS
CONTACT KONTAKT CIRCUIT CIRCUIT
TOP. NIH
1A A15 1B A14
2A A13 2B A12
3A D7 3B +5 V
6A D0 4B DOS /
7A D1 9B A0
8A D2 10B A1
9A D6 11B A2
10A D5 13B IORQGE
11A D3 20B RESET
12A D4 21B A7
17A IORQ 23B A5
18A RD 27B A9
21A WAIT 28B A11
26A A8 30B GND
27A A10
30A GND
Table 2. Connector for IBM-Keyboard (X1)
CONTACT 1 2 3 4
CIRCUIT KBCLK KBDAT Vcc GND
Table 3. Connector for IBM MOUSE (X2)
Pin 2 3 4 5 7
CIRCUIT RxD TxD DTR GND RTS
Table 4. Connector for keyboard ZX (X5)
CONTACT 1 3 5 7 8 9
CIRCUIT Kb0 Kb1 Kb2 Kb3 MAGIC Kb4
Table 5. Connector for PASSIVE MOUSE (x6)
CONTACT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
CIRCUIT Xa Xb Ya Yb Km KI Vcc GND Kr
NOTE: Wiring connector X6 is similar COMMODORE-AMIGA, ATARI-ST,
CREATE SOFT MOUSE.
to be continued ...
