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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Dials and Buttons
- Message-ID: <s9q3o0g@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 01:52:48 GMT
- References: <BxKK38.4sx@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Nov12.002121.18374@cs.yale.edu>
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- In <1992Nov12.002121.18374@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
- | I don't know if your 4D/20 needs what our Crimson Elan
- | needed, which was a special serial port board we had to
- | install to power the dials and buttons, and the
- | stereoviewer. Interestingly, no one knew enough to tell
- | us we had to order this board in the first place, and it took
- | two months to get tech support to figure out the problem,
- | get a board from the factory, chase people down on the
- | phone, try and make sense of the somewhat hacked
- | installation instructions... not very impressive for
- | an otherwise impressive support organization.
-
- I doubt it was a serial port board per se (if so, I've never heard
- about it). All it should need is a seperate power supply. There are
- two models, one which can be powered off the duart (one duart per
- system) connector on some power series machines, the other has one of
- those detachable power supplies.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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