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From: steve-t@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Incompatibility with 98203C keyboard?
Message-ID: <7370331@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 91 04:36:05 GMT
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In /comp.sys.hp/ tgl@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) // asks:
| I recall having heard once that certain older Series 200/300 machines have
| HIL keyboard controllers that don't know about the 98203C (HIL Nimitz)
| keyboard.  In these machines you can't use that keyboard with Basic
| (it might work with HPUX, though ... does HPUX use raw keyboard input?)

The 98203C keyboard isn't supported by HP-UX on any machine.  The HP-UX
drivers don't know how to handle a device which is both a keyboard and
a relative positioning device.  You could probably talk to one as a raw
HP-HIL device if you told X and the ITE to ignore it.

| If anyone remembers this and knows how to tell which machines have the old
| keyboard controller, I'd appreciate hearing from you.

An old price guide says there an upgrade kit for Series 300s shipped before
1 September 1986 to use this keyboard, so that's when it changed.  There was
a part number change on the 8042 keyboard controllers, but I don't have that
information.  Here's another way (-:  if you have an (old, long obsolete)
HP-HIL Vectra keyboard, plug it in and type a few keys ... if the 300 seems
to go crazy, you have the old, non-98203C, controller.

						Regards, Steve taylor

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