[rescue] OT: RS/6000s

James Lockwood rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Nov 13 12:08:02 CST 2001


On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:

> The killer is finding a RS6K keyboard.  Any PS2 mouse will work, but
> install will require a real RS6K keyboard on the older machines.
> After installation, you can use a PS2 keyboard.  The real RS6K
> keyboards have ctrl/action instead of ctrl on the right ctrl key.
> They also have a built-in speaker underneath.

The 250 can use any reasonable PS/2 keyboard.  I used one off of my HP
712, though I had to file the plastic corners of the connector in order to
get it to fit (the 250 has a deeply recessed cylindrical kb connector).

-James




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