Yes. I have
something that calls itself an 'Ultra-X', I assume it's some
fairly early X-terminal. [...]
I don't think its so early; the earliest X terminals used custom
monitor, mouse and keyboard connections. They didn't start using
I have an idea this thing is running X10, not X11...
Oh, interesting...how does it boot? Server in ROM or loaded via tftp,
etc.?
There's a daughterboard to the 'video board' (the one with the 34010 on
it) which contains 10 EPROMs (I forgrt the size of each). Those contain
the Xserver and fonts.
There are, IIRC, a total of 4 PCBs in the unit. There's a little SMPSU,
the video board (34010 + RAM + RAMDAC + a little support logic), the ROM
daugherboard and an I/O board (80188 + standard serial, ethernet,
keyboard interface (programmed 8042), etc chips.
I should have scheamtics somewhere so I can find more details if you're
interested.
standard
VGA/PS2 style connections until the mid to late 90s. By this
It's not PS/2. It's a AT-style 5 pin DIN for the keyboard and an RS232
serial mouse (I think either Logitec or Microsoft).
Yes, that sounds more of the period :-).
A minor clarification, IIRC, the unit can be set to use either a
Microsoft or Logitec serial mouse in one of the setup menus.
-tony