IBM Powerstation 320h

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Philip Belben wrote:
>> be sure to ask for cables too.  the serial cables are the same as RT 
>> ones, but are not Dsub cables.  also whatever passes for video would 
>> be good.  you should be able to use ps2 mouse and kb if you dont get 
>> those though.
> 
> I beg to differ.  The keyboard looks just like a PS/2 keyboard, but it 
> isn't, and they don't interchange!  The genuine keyboard has an ID 
> number printed in white in the margin of the piece of trim that covers 
> the Num Lock / Caps Lock LEDS.
> 
> I found that out the hard way, after an office move in which two 
> keyboards got swapped.  We called the service engineer out and after he 
> had changed the mother board (ugh!) to no effect, he retrieved the 
> correct keyboard from the PC on a colleague's desk (said colleague was 
> away on holiday at the time) and it worked fine.
> 
> But a PS/2 mouse works fine.  I used an RS/6000 mouse on my PC for some 
> years - it was detected as Logitech...

I believe that AIX recognizes the PS/2 keyboard just fine past version 
4.2.1.  You only run into problems with < 4.2.1.  Anyway, the only 
differences are a couple of layout issues, and the embedded speaker.

Peace...  Sridhar