Sun 1 Keyboard

Yes that is exactly the keyboard I have, it is a Large metal keyboard with an RJ45 plug which connects via a cable to a DB15 adapter. If that is in fact a serial keyboard, would it be as simple as using a RJ45 to DB25 adapter? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ / Depends on what you mean by "Sun 2 Keyboard". There's a keyboard with mushy feel and a case which is a largeish wedge, kind of like a type-3 only with the front brought further out and made of metal instead of plastic. I'd call it a type 2. It's been a while, but as I recall, they had a coiled cable with an RJ-style plug on the host end, which plugged into a small adapter which plugged into a DA-15 on the host. (The mouse also plugged into this adapter.) However, it's possible that I'm remembering using them with Sun-3 CPUs; our Sun-2s were CPU-board-swap upgraded to Sun-3s fairly early in our use of them. This is relevant because it could be that on the Sun-2s the keyboard and mouse cables plugged directly into something, with the adapters existing only to connect them to the DA15s the Sun-3s use. I think that adapter was completely passive, being just connectors and wiring. If so, those keyboards must have been serial, because the Sun-3 keyboard interface is. (With suitable voltage-level shifters, and an external +5V supply, you can use such keyboards on a bog-standard serial port; I have a type-3 in live use that way now.) Of course, this is all predicated on your "Sun 2 Keyboard" being what I think of as a type-2.... / Sun keyboards up through the type-5 and thereabouts - pretty much, anything that can be used with Suns from the Sun-3 days up to the end of the SBus era - are all serial, though that's not to say they're compatible enough to Just Work for you; they may speak the wrong protocol, or may need various glue, either passive adapters or something more elaborate.... /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org <http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech> / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Previous message:Sun 1 Keyboard <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2012-August/136154.html> * Next message:Anyone interested in servicing a trs-80 external hard drive <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2012-August/136146.html> * *Messages sorted by:*[ date ] <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2012-August/date.html#136166>[ thread ] <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2012-August/thread.html#136166>[ subject ] <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2012-August/subject.html#136166>[ author ] <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2012-August/author.html#136166> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ More information about the cctech mailing list <http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech>