[SunRescue] Keyboard Substitute

[Hatle, Steven J.]

A very dusty recollection is that the Mac serial printer cable is the one
that is nulled- I wouldn't bet a large sum of money on it, however, and my
Imagewriter is long gone so I don't have any way to test <grin>.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim [mailto:kamakazi at tangent.stev.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 9:28 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Keyboard Substitute


Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> >
> > sends the video output to the serial port. Now unless I carry a
> > laptop.
> >
> > which I can't generally do. Is there a way to get around this?
> >
> >
> >
> > Does any one know of a way to "trick" the unit into believing the
> > keyboard
> >
> 
> Normally I use my Palm Pilot.  Obviously, there are some limitations
> - and the cable setup is somewhat bulky, but it beats carrying a
> laptop around.  I don't even try to trick the workstaion into
> thinking there's a keyboard attached.
> 
> I use a Palm III with Ptelnet installed, the slimline hotsync cable
> (not the cradle), and a null modem adapter (because the hotsync cable
> is null modem so you need to reverse that), then finally a Macintosh
> (IPC and IPX use this format) to PC adapter cable.  The whole thing
> is about 3 feet long and looks like something out of The Matrix, but
> it works.  I understand that there's a slimline Mac cable, but I
> don't know about null modem adapters for that.
> 
> One of these days I'll solder up something in one unit (or mabey
> Belkin makes one), but until then I carry this around to swap meets
> and whatnot.
> 
> Kurt
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Actually, you can lose the Null modem if you use a Macintosh modem
cable(I think that's the way) The Macintosh Modem and printer cables
both are Din to 25 pin, but one of them is already nulled, since I can't
usually tell the cables apart I never remember which it is, but It does
get rid of one gadget in the line, and since I have taken all the screws
out of the cables I carry around it is less likely to fall apart in
use.  And you can use the hotsync cradle, it just takes 7 hands to hold
everything.

Tim
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