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Subject: Re: new Sun type-4 keyboards
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>Does anyone know if you can actually plug an old-style keyboard into a new
>machine (like a SPARCstation-1 or 3/80)?

No.  The keyboard uses a new round DIN-like connector (just like a Mac).
The mouse also plugs into the keyboard using a similar DIN connector.  The
keyboard connects to the main unit using a separate cable with DIN
connectors on each end.  So it may be possible that an adapter can be made
to go from the old D style keyboard to the new DIN style connector on the
main unit.  The new keyboard has two DIN connectors on it.  They are not
marked with words, only with little symbols.  They are both underneath the
keyboard with one exiting to the left and the other on the right.  The
symbols would suggest that the mouse can be plugged into either connector
and the other can be cabled to the main unit.

Sam Nuwayser - Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA +1 617-876-1111
   shn@think.com, {harvard,bloom-beacon,topaz}!think!shn