[SunHELP] Re: Sparc 10 video question

Steffen Grunewald sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon Jan 8 07:02:11 CST 2001


On Mon 2001-01-08 (04:39), Bob Minvielle wrote:
> Thanks to Greg for helping me out with this one.
> 
> My keyboard cable does not work with this machine,
> and therefore it thinks there is no keyboard
> and goes to console. (hehe, I overlooked the obvious)

Could you turn the cable around (so that the connectors
are exchanged) ? Some kbds have the cable soldered to them, though :(

> Now a second question:
> 
> This machine has a 50Mhz CPU with no cache.
> Is the upgrade to a 50Mhz w/1Mb cache worth
> it in terms of performance? 

Perhaps not. Go for a /71 or /81 if you really must (and take two)

> Bob (number9)

Number 5 is alive we know, what happened to nrs. 6 to 8 ?

SCNR, Steffen
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