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Date:      Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:21:17 -0500
From:      Joe Diehl <joed@ksu.edu>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   sun type 5 keyboards (dream mode on)
Message-ID:  <199704280122.UAA08525@ksu.edu>

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Greetings,

Okay, I'll admit my dream mode is on here... But I just got a new keyboard
at work and it reminds me just how much I like these things.

I realize that at a technical level the sun type 5 keyboards work 
differantly than a regular PC keyboard, which would make this task easier
said than done, but...  What would it take to try to get a sun type 5
keyboard and mouse working on a FreeBSD workstation?

I'm assuming this would be a best classified as a hack, and might be looking
at modification to the bootblocks and the kernel, as well as finding some
method of running the keyboard through the serial port...  Unless of course
for some odd reason the keyboard port on a p/c can actually handle a
sun keyboard (but I'm kind of thinking it won't).

*shrug*  thoughts?

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Joe Diehl <joed@ksu.edu>
PGP Key: finger joed@unix.ksu.edu



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