OT Sun hardware question

[Brian Kelsay]

> 
> The older sun connector is a 13w3. There are
> inexpensive adapter cables that change the gender to
> vga. I have not seen one of those boxes you are
> talking about. Unless it also converts the sun
> keyboard and mouse connectors to ps/2. I have seen one
> of those at Chris Bodenheimer's house. Though I cant
> remember if it also converted the video to vga.
> 
> Kurt
> 
Yes, I beleive that the PS/2 was also converted in those boxes.  A 
couple of users we moved at Sprint required to box to make their monitor 
and/or KVM work w/ both Sun and Winders desktop or laptop in dock.  If 
they had a separate Sun Sparc 5 and Sun monitor (unless of VGA type) it 
was no problem.  But Murphy visited upon those poor souls and at least 
two of them had their converter boxes misplaced.  Took a couple of hours 
for spares to be run out to that building after someone described over 
the phone to a tech what the box was.  none of us had a name or term for 
it at the time.  I have only heard the term "converter box" when 
referring to them.

Brian

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