On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Nick Allen wrote:
for a Sun 100. I connects via a RJ11 plug into an
adapter that shares with a RJ11 keyboard.
This is a Sun-2 arrangement, used to attach the (serial) mouse and keyboard using RJ11s to
the DA15 on a VME processor board. The multibus 2/120 and 2/170 both express the RJ111
connectors directly on the back panel, and does not use a DA15 adapter.
A Sun 100(u) will have a Sun-1 framebuffer (which has no keyboard or mouse interface), and
use the (parallel) interface on the processor for keyboard (DB25) and mouse (DA15). They
are totally different arrangements.
I have never seen nor heard of a Sun 100 which uses a Sun-2 keyboard, though it's
certainly possible somebody did this after making some more or less significant
alterations to the back panel cutouts (and limiting himself to a single memory board as
there are only three slots in a Sun 100 sharing the P2 bus necessary for the CPU to
connect to memory and the Sun-2 framebuffer). This would be a pretty egregious thing to do
to a Sun 100 now and I think in practice, at a time when it would have not been so
egregious, an extremely unlikely modification.
ok
bear.
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until further notice