[rescue] SGI

[Kevin Bowling]

On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:58 PM John-Paul Stewart via rescue <
rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Does anyone have a spare non-PS/2 keyboard for the original indigo?  I
smoked a capacitor on one of my indigos attaching a PS/2 keyboard and don’t
want to repeat that mistake.


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