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To: Joe Diehl <joed@ksu.edu>
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Subject: Re: sun type 5 keyboards (dream mode on) 
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:25:16 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>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?

I seem to remember Sun markets the adapter for the PC keyboard to be
used with the Sun Workstations. (I may be wrong, though). I don't
think this adapter can be used to connect the Sun keyboard to PC, but,
very existence of the adapter indicates that you can convert the Sun
keyboard data and the PC keyboard data, with proper combination of
hardware/software.

There also is an interesting keyboard in my country. It is a compact
keyboard without ten keys and the cursor key block, and is called HHK
(Happy Hacking Keyboard). This keyboard can be used with either Sun or
PC, using a proper cable. Internally it must be able to detect which
type of the host it is connected to. I don't own this keyboard because
it is rather pricey. But, quite a number of people appear to have
fallen in love with it, I heard.

Check with:

http://www.pfu.co.jp/hhkeyboard/

I am afraid this WWW page is written in Japanese, but you can still
enjoy figures and photo images :-)

Just for your information.

Kazu