HP Vectra networking (26 days OT)

Hans B Pufal <hansp(a)digiweb.com> wrote: I'd like to know what you find, my recollection comes from having to support 10-20 of the original Vectras and somewhat more ES and ES/12s where I worked through most of the late 1980s. (Hey, I thought they were OK for PC-compatibles.) I'm not sure how "standard" the HIL support on the Vectra really was. But the original Vectra had the connector, and its keyboard had two, and you could plug a 46060A mouse into the keyboard. ISTR you could put a touchscreen in the 375[34]1 monitors and hook that up with the HIL connectors on the back of the monitor but we never bothered with that (we bought Touchscreen IIs without the touchscreen too). The original Vectra keyboard isn't the same HIL keyboard as used on the 9000 line -- it has a hybrid layout that looks sort of like the original PC/AT keyboard crossed with the HP150 keyboard, so it has PC F1-F10 in two columns down the left, HP f1-f8 across the top, and a numeric/cursor pad on the right. The Vectra ES and ES/12 have the PC-standard 5-pin DIN connector for the keyboard (which has the PS/2 layout with F1-F12 across the top and Ctrl in the wrong place), but also have an HIL connector next to the keyboard connector, and I think I remember using 46060A mice with those too. -Frank McConnell