14 Aug
2006
14 Aug
'06
3:53 p.m.
Don wrote:
OK, Doc (?) mentioned these...
So far, not really. Granted, I have a nice Raritan that's OK, so
I've been accumulating Cybex pieces on the cheap. I've spent about $30
on what amounts to a fully poplulated chassis - 12 system cards and 2
console cards, and around $15 apiece for 2 SPARC cables with sound, a
very long console cable, a couple of standard PS/2 cables, and one
AT/serial cable for my BeBox.
And, yes. I have an Imperial crapload of money in my toys - Macs, an
Alpha, the BeBox, and RS/6000s mostly, and I simply don't have room for
the machines and separate HID. I don't mind spending $300-400 on
consolidation that gets me good graphics and, as a bonus, even switched
sound.
BTW, in answer to another question in a different post, the console
cables do come in several flavors, including mini-din-8 and 13W3 for
your Sun keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
They consist of a mainframe which is configured
for different
system types through the use of different plug-in
modules.
The cables are interesting in that they're all high-density
<grin> You say "interesting" I say "expensive" :> So, there is nothing *active* in the cables? E.g.,
the
"mainframe" has all of the "adapters" inside (on the
appropriate cards). Does this pose problems if you
plug the wrong cable into a card (i.e. if cable D shell
pins X & Y expect to be tied to a USB mouse and suddenly
find EIA232 signal levels on those pins)?
As far as I can tell, all the logic is "in the box". The cables are
just cables.
Doc