[rescue] What would you pay for a Type 5 keyboard?

[Walter Belgers]

Hi,

> On 4 Jun 2021, at 20:09, John Floren <john at jfloren.net> wrote:
> I'm feeling a bit nostalgic and would like to acquire a Type 5 keyboard +
mouse, build a converter (https://github.com/xelalexv/suniversal should work,
since I've already got Arduino boards lying around), and use it on my desktop.
My editor (acme) makes heavy use of all 3 mouse buttons, so the Sun mouse
should be ideal, and of course I love a proper Unix layout keyboard.

Thanks for the pointer. I just put an Arduino in my Type 4 keyboard. (I have a
bunch of type 2/3/4/5/5c/6 lying around but since consensus here seemed to be
that type 4 is the best, I used that as a guinee pig. Of course the hack is
totally reversible without traces.)

ObRescue: just got an RDI PrecisionBook 180. Installing OpenBSD 5.9 over the
network took 12 hours.. but it works! (after I figured out that FreeBSD tufted
does not support fragments, utftpd does but misses some other features and the
OpenBSD tftpd supports all that is needed to bootstrap) Even with X on a
secondary display. Not much info on the net at all.. Sorry about it being HP..
I have a 	Britelite-LX as wel.

Walter.