Re: Boot w/o Keyboard?

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 00:00

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In <330dfe99.0@vcs2.vcscorp.com> david@vcscorp.com (David Van) writes:

>I have several Suns on a rack that I would like to
>remove the keyboard.  These Suns don't have any
>monitor attached and they only perform background
>processing for batches.  The keyboards are useless.

You can run them without keyboards and they should default to using 
serial port A for the console. If you have any framebuffers fitted, it's 
a good idea to remove them as well (unless they are integrated into the 
electronics on the CPU boards).

>Do you know where I can buy the device that simulates
>a keyboard?  I know it exists and have seen it on 
>some catalogs, but forgot what's called.  I think
>simulated keyboard?

Note sure. Anyone else able to help with this?

Regards,

Craig.
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Date: 1997/02/22
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