Jeffrey Murphy wrote:
 
> What keyboard/mouse sets does the Personal DECstation ( 5000/xx ) use?
> 
> These machines use SERIAL.bus, which requires a VSXXX-BB mouse, an LK-501
> keyboard, and a connecting cable. There are two connectors underneath
> the keyboard; connect both the mouse and unit to either of these (doesn't
> matter which). This is all hot-swappable.
> 
> What keyboard/mouse sets does the DECstation 5000/xxx use?
> 
> These machines use ACCESS.bus; the connector on the back of the machine
> is a HD15 connector. This cable terminates into a block, where a FIXME
> keyboard and FIXME mouse can be plugged in.

The ACCESS.bus and the SERIAL.bus are the same thing and only exists
on the maxine.  The original DEC literature and the maxine manuals
refer to it as SERIAL.bus.  The concept of the single peripheral bus was
so good that an external consortium decided to market the bus for
use on all computers.  The bus capabilities were extended and it was
renamed to ACCESS.bus.  It didn't catch on.
 
	-- Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@qut.edu.au>