28 Dec
2007
28 Dec
'07
4:09 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
(2) It's set for output to video and input from
serial. (This would be
an unusual way to set it, but I think it's possible.)
I could see that happening for a 'hobby' machine snagged from a dumpster if
all the person had was the CPU unit. It'd be reasonably easy to hook some form
of graphical display to the machine, but more tricky to emulate a missing Sun
keyboard.
It was actually my plan for our Sun 2 machine as we were in exactly that
situation; we just had the system unit, but no keyboard or display. Finding a
capable display would be easy enough though, and we had a few VT220's laying
around with dead LOPTs - I was planning on stripping one of those down so it
would just run as a nice RS232 keyboard.
(Unfortunately I got as far as verifying that the system was healthy, just
using a pure RS232 console, then more urgent things needed attention - now I'm
a few thousand miles away :-)
cheers
Jules