30 Apr
1999
30 Apr
'99
7:38 p.m.
On Apr 30, 15:49, Mike Ford wrote:
One of my friends picked up a SGI Indigo (he calls it
a purple), and he
doesn't have a keyboard for it (or mouse I suspect), what will work? He
tried a PC keyboard I think, and got "keyboard error".
The keyboards used on Indigos and Personal IRIS machines are custom
keyboards -- you need the right one. They use custom 3-button mice as
well, which plug into the keyboard. The Indigo versions use a 6-pin
miniDIN connector which looks like a PS/2 connector, but the pinout,
voltages, and protocols are completely different. Indys and later machines
use a
standard PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse. A good source is Greg Douglas at
Reputable Systems:
http://www.reputable.com/
A useful source of information is the "This Old SGI" document, at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2258/4dfaq.html
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York