Subject: Re: Wanted: Optical Mouse Pads
To: Travis Hassloch x231 <travis@EvTech.com>
From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/01/1997 15:37:11
Travis Hassloch x231 wrote:
> I have a couple of Sun3/60's which aren't nearly as usable as they
> could be because I don't have mouse pads. I'd love to hear from
> some kind-hearted soul who has spares.
Radio Shack used to sell the PC version of the 3/60's mouse. I used
this to my advantage a year or two ago when I was in exactly the
same predicament as you: I walked on in and ordered the mouse pad
as a spare part.
Cost me $10, but that's cheaper than the $300 or so that Sun wanted
for a new keyboard :-)
Type-4 and Type-5 keyboards and mouses will work on 3/60's with the
right adaptor plug, too: They have the same signals, just coming out
on a different connector. The adaptors cost some unearthly amount
from Sun, but can be made for about $5 with a DB-15, mini-DIN,
10 centimeters of cable and 3/60 and SPARCstation manuals.
- mark
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