Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 13:04:48 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V3 #8 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 26 Feb 90 Volume 3 : Issue 8 Today's Topics: Need help with Sun 2/120 Sun 2/120 keyboard problems. Suns-at-Home Digest V3 #7 tcsh for Sun 2 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 10:01:53 -0800 From: Doug Faunt N6TQS 415-688-8269 Subject: Need help with Sun 2/120 To: sangho@ssi3b1.zone1.com I worked this all out so that I could use a SUN-3 keyboard on my SUN-2/120. A SUN-3 keyboard plugs into a 2/50 just fine, BTW. modular jack definition from solder side 1 3 5 2 4 6 ^ cable entry, tab away from PC board 20 pin IDC- P1 Keyboard Modular - J1 Mouse modular- J2 >From 2/120 - no toroid P1 J1 Keyboard 2,12 5 Ground 3,13 4 +5 ? 4 3 5 2 P1 J2 Mouse 2,12 2 Ground 3,13 3 +5 14 4 15 5 >From 2/170 - toroid toroid connections defined looking at solder side, modular jacks front P1 RR LR J1 Keyboard 2 G G 5 3 R R 4 4 Y Y 3 5 B B 2 P1 RF LF J2 Mouse 12 G G 2 13 R R 3 14 Y Y 4 15 B B 5 >From 2-50 -toroids P- 15 pin male D-connector K- Keyboard modular M- Mouse modular P K 3 2 1 3 10,11,12,14,15 4 +5 2,4,6,8,9 5 Ground P M 2,4,6,8,9 2 Ground 10,11,12,14,15 3 +5 5 4 7 5 P- 15 pin male D-connector P1- 20 pin IDC K- keyboard modular M- mouse modular P K P1 3 2 5 1 3 4 10,11,12,14,15 4 +5 3,13 2,4,6,8,9 5 Ground 2,12 P M P1 2,4,6,8,9 2 Ground 2,12 10,11,12,14,15 3 +5 3,13 5 4 14 7 5 15 15pin female D 20pin IDC 1 4 Keyboard signal 3 5 Keyboard signal 5 14 Mouse signal 7 15 Mouse signal 2,4,6,8,9 2,12 Ground 10,11,12,14,15 3,13 +5v ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 10:56:57 CST From: ssi!rmb@uunet.UU.NET (Keptin Komrade Dr. Bobwrench III) Subject: Sun 2/120 keyboard problems. To: uunet!mit-eddie!mirror!ssi3b1!sangho@uunet.UU.NET, ->2. One of the 2/120's doesn't seem to recognize the keyboard or the mouse. -> I can access the system through a keyboard connected to a terminal on -> ttya but this doesn't allow me to use a mouse. Anyone have ideas on -> what might be the problem? Could be one of three problems. 1) The keyboard is trash. Sun 2 keyboards are fairly static sensitive and are easily shocked out of existace at this time of year, as I have found out twice in the last 3 months. Try plugging it into another Sun to check it out. 2) The cable is not connecting. Either the cable from the keyboard to the pedestal or the cable from the back panel to the video/keyboard interface. Check the connections and swap them with ones from a known good unit. You don't need to actually route the one your swapping in to the back, just plug it in to the board and plug a keyboard into the other end. 3) The Video/keyboard interface card is dead. Swap it with a known good one to test. Having more than 1 120 will come in handy here. In truth, I've had little or no trouble outside of zapping keyboards in my 2/120, but have a good source of parts. The Minicomputer Exchange in Sunnyvale has decent prices on parts if you talk nicely to them. They also have the best prices on used Sun equipment in general that I've found. Their # is 1-408-733-4400. Ask for Brandon and tell him I sent you. I have no interest in this other than as a happy customer who's spent > $10K with them.... bob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 12:48:13 PST From: eggert@burns.twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V3 #7 To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu In Suns-at-home 3:7 Mark Biggers asked about free software for hooking up a laser printer. It isn't hard to find such software; indeed, so much is available that you may have trouble deciding which to use! The ASCII-to-PostScript translators (i.e. substitutes for 'enscript') a2ps, cz, lwf, and mp have all been posted to comp.sources.misc or comp.sources.unix. We use mp, if only because it happened to be posted the week before we needed something like it. For TeX, there are several free DVI-to-PS translators. None are perfect. We use dvips50. For old troff, there are two programs: thack, posted in comp.sources.misc, matches the font width tables in SunOS 4.*; psroff, posted in comp.sources.unix, is much fancier. We use thack, because it's simpler. I don't know of any free translator for ditroff (new troff). For handshaking to the LaserWriter itself, we use a little C program that we wrote ourselves. Without the handshaking, your LaserWriter won't separate print jobs, and one job may gobble up the LaserWriter's virtual memory, or its settings may affect later jobs. Please write me if you want the source. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 11:03:30 EST From: sangho@ssi3b1.zone1.com (Sangho Yoon) Subject: tcsh for Sun 2 To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Does anyone have either the sources or the binaries for tcsh running on a Sun 2 with SunOS 3.2? Sangho -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Sangho Yoon - ...{mit-eddie,pyramid,datacube}!mirror!ssi3b1!sangho sangho@ssi3b1.zone1.com ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************