"Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> From ebay, not necessarly the cheapest a search on sun type 5 keyboard 
> showed up 1 buy-it-now at $14.99, one with an optical mouse
> currently at $5.24, and a few others.
>
> If you are willing to wait you might be able to find someone giveing them
> away.  
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:28:04PM -0800, Ted Havelka wrote:

> > As Sun no longer makes the Sparc type keyboards, is it worth trying to fix
> > a seemingly dead one?  Back in the late 90's I remember our lead Unix
> > admin at Portland State University talk about how the new keyboards for
> > Sparcs cost $110 in their day.  Their market value is far less now, but
> > I've heard that it's not easy to get a PS/2 keyboard to work with Sparc
> > systems.

LOL - I send Ted just such an offer but I guess his spam filter is a tad
too agressive, or maybe one finally showed up at freegeek...

Ted: I'm in PDX and have several type 5 and a few type 4 keyboards.  Let
me know if you want one.  Lots of optical mice too.

Cheers,
Jeff