Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com> writes:

> I tried hooking up a DEC-made PS/2 keboard and got the exact same
> results "keyboard not found, switching to serial" as with the JS-1's
> included Sun keyboard. (I also tried connecting the mouse in case that
> had any side effects -- didn't make a difference.)

The OpenBoot does not know how to access the keyboard. (At least for
the 2.30 version.) Changing the hardware can't have any effect.

But, the OpenBoot probably do know how to talk to a sun Type-4 and
Type-5-keyboard over the exact same chip used for the PS/2
keyboard. But testing that would require some serious hardware
hacking.

> Is everyone's JS-1 colored like a typical SparcStation? According to
> the FAQ URL above, the one I have is "Mr. Coffee White Case
> Variation #2" but I note that in the last picture on the page (the
> lab picture), all of the visible JavaStations look like the
> non-white-case "Mr. Coffee".

All we have is purplegrayish, like the one on the picture. 

> Maybe the white-case versions had hardware bugs? It's already clear from
> the release note in the shipping carton that it was a developer's early
> access version.

Don't think so. The keyboard does not work in the PROM because this
was never designed to work.

	Steinar