Re: Keyboard question...

On 9/22/06, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hoff Hoffman wrote:
> LK201, LK250, LK401, LK411, LK412, LK421, LK450, LK461 beige, LK46W
frost
> white, and LK463 black.


In the PDF document for the DS10, it lists only LK461-xx variants as
keyboards for that unit. Is that the case ? Or are there older variants
that would also work ? (eg: keyboards for older Alpha worklstations for
instance).


Also, I have found an LK462 french canadian. What would be the
difference between LK462 and LK461?


The LK462 french-canadian version won't work on Alphaservers.
: - )
You're stuck in the VAXen Hemisphere.
: - ) : - )
Send the DS10L back to David.
: - ) : - ) : - )
Now.

I'm sorry, jf, it's just that you've been so rabidly VAX-centric for so long
that teasing you about winning the DS10L is completely irresistable to me.

And, from reading some recent posts in the newsgroup, I am not the only one
who can't resist teasing you a bit..

While I am at it. the DS10L sports 2 serial ports (COM1 an COM2 in the
documentation). They appear to be 9 pin D type connectors. Can anyone
confirm if it is in fact a standrad 9 pin connector


Yep.


and what sex is on
the cabinet (or what sex I need for the cable) ?


In this newsgroup, sex is off-topic.

AFAIK, all 9 pin serial ports are male, and all 25-pin parallel ports are
male. (Now some wiseacre is going to post that some obscure make of
hardware violates this norm.)

In the PC world, you used-to-could (If you're not from the southern US, look
up Jeff Foxworthy for an explanation of this term) know if a 25 pin port was
serial or parallel was by whether it was male or female. ( I can send you
the schematic for a parallel port loopback connector!)

If you want to hook up a PC to it and run a terminal emulator to it, one
DEC-pure part method
is to use a BC16E cable with H8571J adapters (MMJ to DB9F, obviously) on
each end.

There are also commercial PC cables that are DB9F at each end; they're
probably null-modem, I haven't had coffee yet so I do not wish to
pontificate on that as I haven't had to buy one in years.

I'll have to scrouge up some of those connectors to build serial cables
for my new puppy.



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