[rescue] IRIS keyboard

[Big Endian]

>At 11:06 PM 3/19/02 -0500, Big Endian wrote:
>>I'm desperately in need of a KVM switch, but I know there's nothing 
>>that will support an IRIS keyboard.  I wonder how hard it is to 
>>make a little black box that will convert between an IRIS kb/mouse 
>>and PS2 kb/mouse signals.  Any ideas?  Anybody ever tried this?
>
>
>Since the Personal Iris just uses a 9 pin serial cable for the 
>connection, wouldn't it be easier to use an A/B switch instead?  You 
>can't combine PS2 mouse/Keyboard signals with the SGI Personal Iris 
>ones unfortunately.

The idea is to use a ps2 kb/mouse and a 20E21 monitor on an Indy, the 
Crimson (hence the IRIS kb), an HP C200 and a PC for games.  So an 
A/B/C/D switch is fine... I just need to have everything talking the 
same way for the kb/mouse.

daniel
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