[rescue] Sun 3 keyboard/mouse options?

[Mouse]

>> It appears Sun actually sold an adapter to use the Model 4 keyboard
>> on the Sun 3, [...]

>> [...] I've also found the pinouts to make my own; I have some 9-pin
>> male shells and I'll probably liberate the female DIN-8 connector
>> from a trashed keyboard to make the adapter.

DE-9s won't be of any use for this; you need a DA-15.  I've made my own
adapters often enough, though for using a type-3 keyboard on machines
having a miniDIN-8 for keyboard/mouse, rather than the other way
around.  But the cable you need is the same except for the sex of the
DA-15.  (I take a miniDIN-8-to-miniDIN-8 cable, such as is typically
used for type-4 keyboards, and cut it in two, then solder on a DA-15
from an electronics parts house like Mouser or DigiKey.)

>> I will start small with serial connection first.

I would recommend that, definitely.

>> Will also need to research how to get this guy net-booted

I can help with that; I've netbooted plenty of Suns in my time.  I'd
have to run a test to be certain, but I think they RARP for an address,
then TFTP for their bootblocks.  Everything after that is up to the
TFTPed program; the NetBSD versions I run come with the relevant
software, so I would assume any NetBSD version that has sun3 support
would do likewise.

>> and eventually an install on a drive in the shoebox.

That's a relatively easy thing once you have it netbooting (assuming of
course that your drive, enclosure, and cable actually work properly).

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