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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?

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?

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
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