Florin Iucha wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:05:03PM -0600, Steve Siegfried wrote: > > Sun sells a "Sun Interface Converter" (Sun part number 370-2068-01, a.k.a. > > "X465A" -- list price $75) that lets you connect a Sparc box to a regular > > (PS/2) keyboard & mouse. > > More info at: "http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?catid=3D= > 3948" > > I have saw a bunch of those at MPC last week. I doubt they were asking $75 > for one. > > The problem with those VGA adapters is that the Solaris terminal code gets= > =20 > confused and it wraps the lines in a weird mode, and some lines are not=20 > displayed at all. > > As the old sparcs are pretty slow, you might not want to run X on them. > Just use a serial cable to have a console in case anything goes wrong. > > florin > The interface converter I described above (in the "> >" stuff) is NOT a VGA adapter. It's a keyboard/mouse converter with dip switches on the bottom to set the style of keyboard you're using (US AT-101, UK AT-102, German AT-102, or DOS/V). -S