Re: Connect Type 5 keyboard to Sun 4c

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From: Doug McIntyre
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:00

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cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:
>A type-5 keyboard will work just fine with no software or hardware changes
>on your SS2 and IPC. Some of the extra keys won't do anything, but otherwise
>it'll be fine. Type-5 kbd's identify themselves as type-4's at power-on
>apparently.

Or the older ROM's can't tell the difference between them since the
keyboards overall electronicaly are simular. 


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From: merlyn@visi.com (Doug McIntyre)
Subject: Re: Connect Type 5 keyboard to Sun 4c
Date: 1998/09/18
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