[Sunhelp] Sun Type 6 keyboards

Greg gonufer at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 18 14:45:00 CDT 2000


> Are all Sun Type 6 keyboards of the USB variety?

No, they're available with either the plain serial interface for
use on older Sun platforms or with USB for the new Sun platforms.

> Somebody is selling one
> that he says is USB, I didn't think Sun made USB peripherals.

Yes, there are Type 6 USB keyboards, this message is being composed
on one which is plugged into a Sun Blade 1000:

prtdiag says, amongst other things:

  =============================== usb Devices ===============================

  Name          Port#
  ------------  -----
  mouse           1
  keyboard        2

> I like the
> style of the keyboard but obviously I can't use USB on a SPARCstation.

Just on the newer ones.  But you can use the non-USB Type 6 on the older
ones.

-greg






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