28 Dec
2007
28 Dec
'07
4:10 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
der Mouse wrote:
Are you sure? IIRC the displays have ECL connections.
(2) It's set for output to video and input
from serial. (This would be
an unusual way to set it, but I think it's possible.)
I could see that happening for a 'hobby' machine snagged from a dumpster
if all the person had was the CPU unit. It'd be reasonably easy to hook
some form of graphical display to the machine, but more tricky to
emulate a missing Sun keyboard.
It was actually my plan for our Sun 2 machine as we were in exactly that
situation; we just had the system unit, but no keyboard or display.
Finding a capable display would be easy enough though, and we had a few
VT220's laying around with dead LOPTs - I was planning on stripping one
of those down so it would just run as a nice RS232 keyboard.