[SunRescue] WTB: Type 4 Keyboard Cable

Gregory Leblanc GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Thu Aug 12 15:52:29 CDT 1999


Will that take the same keyboard as a VT420?  I have a few keyboards left
over from terminals that were being with our Vax time sharing terminal
server just a couple of years ago.  
	Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Mosiejczuk [mailto:kurt at csh.rit.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 1:21 PM
> To: rescue at ohno.mrbill.net
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] WTB: Type 4 Keyboard Cable
> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> > Swinging slowly back on track, there's a great use for old 
> compact Macs
> > (Plus/SE/Classic) for us workstation-heads.  They make great serial
> > terminals and are very compact, and usually far cheaper 
> than the $75-100
> > that a used terminal will cost.  With a bit of work you can 
> set them up to
> > boot into a terminal program automatically and you don't 
> even need to keep
> > a mouse hooked up.
> 
> That's a pretty good idea...  Although I did manage to get a 
> keyboard-less
> VT320 at a ham fest recently for like $4.  Anybody have a 
> keyboard for one?
> 
> 
> > I'm always on the lookout for them, so if anyone finds a 
> pallet of them
> > drop me a line.  Heck, I'd even pay money for an SE/30, if 
> only to play
> > NetTrek. :-)
> 
> Great, now you make me go off-topic :)
> 
> This past school year and this upcoming one, myself and a 
> bunch of friends 
> have been playing netrek in the CS labs at RIT.  My best 
> buddy is the admin,
> so on fridays, he would reserve two labs of Ultra 1s and we'd 
> go to town.
> We're planning on doing it again starting this fall, so if 
> anyone is interested
> (and in the area) and would like to join us, feel free to 
> drop me an email.
> 
> --Kurt
> 
> > -James
> 
> 
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