[SunRescue] That maddening cycle...

[Mike Nicewonger]

I have these. contact me off list.

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Dunehew" <sdunehew at medicalmatrix.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 3:53 PM
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] That maddening cycle...


> I brought an old Sparc in to hook to the network and use the bandwidth.
> Much faster than the home connection.  A net install of OpenBSD was
actually
> doable.
>
> I didn't have trouble with people touching the monitor or system, but
> someone used the keyboard cable for a PS/2 mouse extension cable.  I had
> missed it when I packed up to go home, and didn't notice it was gone at
> first, I was running the box headless.
>
> It was a type-4 cable and when they plugged it and had to jiggle it to
make
> it work.  It did explain the intermittent problems that the user was
having
> with the mouse.  Needless to say the cable has 'issues' now.
>
> If anyone has a type-4 keyboard cable laying around that they would part
> with I would appreciate it, mine is missing pin 4 which makes it a little
> hard to use X windows.
>
> Thanks
>
> Seth Dunehew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:05 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] That maddening cycle...
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:59:38PM -0500, Tim Harrison wrote:
> > I brought my NeXTstation Color Turbo w/ 21" monitor into my workplace,
> > but had to take it home, as people were touching it when I wasn't
> > around.  I had asked that no one go around it when I wasn't there, but
> > the technical support grunts were like "Dude, look at that big at ss black
> > monitor." and putting their fingerprints all over it.  Urgh.
> > No more nifty toys at the office.  They all stay in the comfort of home.
>
> I brought my DEC 3000/600 and VT220 console terminal into work to play
> with DU 5.0A on.  Boss walked past while I was installing the OS.
>
> "Oooh, retro"
>
> I thought, its not THAT old...
>
> Bill
>
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