American Dynamics ADMPCPU User Manual

MEGAPOWER CPU 

8200-0421-03, REV. G 

ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE 

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2.  To add keyboards, complete the following fields: 

•  System Port Number – Enter the port number 

of the keyboard’s connection to the 
MegaPower CPU. The MegaPower CPU can 
support up to 128 keyboards using port 
expansion modules. Port expansion modules 
convert a single port into four ports. When a 
port expansion module is connected to a port, 
port numbering adds an alpha character (a, b, 
c, d) to each port number; for example, port 
one becomes ports 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d; port two 
becomes ports 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, and so on. 

•  Expansion Port – Choose the port on the port 

expansion module (if the MegaPower CPU is 
so equipped) that the keyboard will connect to. 
The choices are a, b, c, or d. 

•  Name – Enter a name for the keyboard using 

alpha or numeric characters. 

3. Click OK to display the new keyboard definition or 

Cancel to close the dialog box without displaying 
the definition. 

Note: Remember to save or transfer your 
changes before closing EASY CPU. 

Once a keyboard is defined, you can edit the 
definition by highlighting the information in the field 
and typing in new information. 

1.  Click the header of the row in the upper screen 

that contains the keyboard definition to be 
deleted. 

2.  Press the keyboard Delete key of the PC running 

EASY CPU. The Delete Rows screen appears. 

 

3. Press Yes to delete the keyboard definition or No 

to retain the definition and exit. 

You can add monitors to keyboards, as well as 
remove them from keyboards. 

The Site Access tab on the Partitions – Keyboards to 
Satellites screen allows you to enable selected 
keyboards to view, but not control, satellite sites. 

To begin associating keyboards with satellite sites: 

Click on a keyboard (any cell in the keyboard row) in 
the upper screen. This associates the keyboard to 
the satellite sites listed in the Site Access screen 
(lower screen). The keyboard number appears in the 
grayed-out Keyboard box. 

 

You can add satellite sites to keyboards, as well as 
remove them from keyboards.