[rescue] Wanted: Keyboard / Mouse and VGA Adapter for Sparc Classic

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Joshua Johnston wrote:

> I've got a few bucks I can afford to put toward getting a keyboard,
> mouse, and VGA adapter to be able to use one of my Sparcs headed.  I'd
> go to eBay for this, but since eBay started doing popup ads, I'm trying
> to avoid the place as much as possible.

I haven't noticed any popup ads under any OS, and I'm a daily eBayer.  If
you're running Windows, you might have an Internet Explorer ActiveX
control installed that's doing the pop-ups.  Search your registry for
"vx2".  You should be able to safely remove any/all references to it.

Or, if you don't feel comforatable mucking around in your Registry,
download Ad-Aware (http://lavasoftusa.com/).  Ad-Aware is Good Software,
and it's free.  It'll gleefully point out all those lurking little
tapeworms and remove them for you.

I felt the same way when I started seeing popup ads on Google, but I
-knew- something was amiss when I started seeing popups ads on -my-
website.  Google, BTW, has posted information about seeing popup ads on
there as a FAQ.

> Does anyone have anything they're willing to part with?

I haven't had any luck getting a PC monitor to work on older SPARCs.  Be
aware that there are at least two variants of the "Unix<->PC Monitor
adapter" to account for the difference in synching between SGIs and Suns.
So, if you get an adapter from eBay or wherever (that is, anywhere other
than from the knowlegable folks on this list), be sure that it's wired for
a Sun.

--Jonathan