IBM Powerstation 320h

Philip Belben philip at axeside.co.uk
Tue Aug 5 15:17:29 CDT 2008


> 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...

Philip.




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