[rescue] SGI

[John-Paul Stewart]

On 2023-10-03 00:35, Thomas Pelki via rescue wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know which SGI keyboard/mouse is supposed to originally
> come with the indigo2 (teal)? I'm seeing multiple different keyboards
> and multiple different mice. I am hoping to keep it OEM when it comes to
> the keyboard and mouse without breaking the bank.

(Sorry, I meant to include this in my earlier reply but didn't.)

I believe the "granite" coloured keyboards & mice (i.e., the speckled
grey ones) were contemporary.  The earlier beige keyboards might have
still been around for the earliest Indigo2 systems.  Maybe they'd been
phased out already.  I'm not sure.  I do know the dark "charcoal" grey
keyboards definitely came much later, after the Indigo2 had been
discontinued.

There were (at least) two styles of granite keyboard.  Either is
probably period appropriate.  Almost all of the marketing materials show
the Indigo2 with granite keyboard, mouse, and monitor.

Also beware the Onyx/Indigo style keyboards that come in both beige and
granite.  They look like PS/2 but aren't.  DO NOT connect one to a PS/2
system.  Fortunately, those keyboards are easy to identify since they
have a removable cable and matching DIN ports on either side.  On one
side you plug the cable to the computer and then the mouse plugs in to
the other side of the keyboard rather than directly to the system.  So
if you see a keyboard with detached cable and two ports, it's not what
you need.