> I talked with my friend who worked at Solbourne longer than I did. Oooh. Dieter, maybe?
> This isn't quite right. The connectors are different, but the signalling is > the same. You need a custom adapter, though, so you get the right signals > on the right pins. Solbourne specifically made their keyboards incompatible > with Suns at the connector level to force people to buy keyboards from > Solbourne, but used the same basic parts as Sun keyboards to save on > development costs. While the big battleship keyboards have extra keys, the > scan codes for the basic keys are the same (though he cautioned me that was > only his memory, but based on how fanatical they were about being Sun > compatible). After he told me that, I recalled that I found an odd cable a > few years ago in my big box of cables that could have been such an adapter, > though I don't have it any more. He suggested using the SE guide that was > on bitkeepers to make an adapter. Well, that's good to know. I'll update that section if you can get the name as the source (since most of the available documentation says different). -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- .signature violation (core dumped) -----------------------------------------
