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- From: gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk (George Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: WANTED: dongle for unpluggable (type-4) keyboard
- Message-ID: <C0p0Gx.DGG@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 14:05:21 GMT
- Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University
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- Scenario: we have an IPC built in to the lecturers' bench in one of our
- theatres driving a large-screen projection system. Because the theatre is a
- relatively open shared resource we would like to be able to unplug the
- keyboard and mouse and store them separately (we already do this with the
- monitor). Does anyone have a circuit for a dongle we could plug into the
- IPC's keyboard socket which will make the machine believe the keyboard is
- present even when it has been unplugged?
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- Alternatively, is there some way to persuade the thing to use one of the
- RS-232 ports as the console while still having the keyboard/mouse/framebuffer
- available for normal use? Is there an unplugged-console dongle for this
- situation?
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- 4.1.2, btw, though we could probably go to 4.1.3 if it made any difference;
- Solaris 2.x isn't an option at the moment.
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- George D M Ross, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
- Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH9 3JZ
- Tel: 031-650 5147 Internet: gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk JANET: gdmr@uk.ac.ed.dcs
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