[SunHELP] SPARCstation 5

[James Ascroft-Leigh]

I normally wouldn't but I also have two IPXs and they make quite a lot of
noise.  I am a student with a small room that I need to sleep in too.  The
IPXs can't turn themselves off.  The SS5 has a courtesy power outlet and so
do the IPXs.  I was hoping to write a script on my (quieter) i386 to halt
the IPXs.  The last thing the IPXs would do is report that they have
finished shutting down and then my i386 will instruct the SS% to turn off.

After a good night sleep I was then hoping to perform the reverse process
:-)  Maybe I can make a wire to go from the i386 to the keyboard input port
or something...

		                     _________
                                /         \
					_|   H   G   |_
                              \  F   D   E  /
                               \  C  A  B  /
                                 \       /
                             |_    \-^-/    _|

You wouldn't happen to know which pin I need to use on my type 5c keyboard
and how, would you?

Again,  all help is appreciated,

James Ascroft-Leigh
mailto:JamesAsc at bigfoot.com

-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of James Lockwood
Sent: Sunday, 18 March 2001 7:34 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] SPARCstation 5


On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, James Ascroft-Leigh wrote:

> I have noticed that it seems to be quite advanced for it's age with things
> like an optical mouse and power on from the keyboard.  I was just
wondering
> whether it would be possible - even if really difficult - to cause it to
> power up from a signal to it's Ethernet port.  i.e.  It is off and I tell
it
> to turn on from another computer that it is networked to.  Is there any
> chance?

No.  Then again, why would you ever want to turn it off?

If you think the SS5 was advanced, you should have seen a 3/60 back in
1987.  Huge power, tiny package, tiny price.  I still miss mine every now
and then (though the 3/410 I upgraded to squashed it CPU-wise).

-James

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