I was given 3 old sun sparc ultra enterprise 2 systems from a friend. said had no idea if they worked, so gave me all 3 since didn't want anyway incase parts were bad I'd have material fro at least a working system.
said video was proprietary, but figured could add a PCI VGA card, but on opening them all expansions are also proprietary. then noticed that keyboard/mouse share 1 port that looks something like a cross with PS/2 and S-video.
i'm thinking about possibly just hacking a VGA cable onto the card since same setup just different connection. would think that KB/mouse would be odd connection using PS/2, but when I looked up the pinouts they sound the same, but use different terms for some pins I was thinking somehow hack an old ps/2 KB onto it and forget mouse since almost all can be done using KB I would think.
any idea whether this is possible video sounds simple, but KB/mouse i'm not sure.
saw this http://www.ebay.com/itm/251224421182?hlp=false online for like $25 I can get a converter box which would be fine, but not sure worth getting. specs for systems I got are like 64 bit 100mhz CPU *2 max 2GB ram, 4.7 GB HDD. don't think worth investment. But if sun still uses these setups I could see doing that since could be handy in future.
any ideas whether they still do this or are they standard now with USB, VGA or DVI? just curious too any idea of suns market percentage right now?
thanks for any info first experience with sun product also.
said video was proprietary, but figured could add a PCI VGA card, but on opening them all expansions are also proprietary. then noticed that keyboard/mouse share 1 port that looks something like a cross with PS/2 and S-video.
i'm thinking about possibly just hacking a VGA cable onto the card since same setup just different connection. would think that KB/mouse would be odd connection using PS/2, but when I looked up the pinouts they sound the same, but use different terms for some pins I was thinking somehow hack an old ps/2 KB onto it and forget mouse since almost all can be done using KB I would think.
any idea whether this is possible video sounds simple, but KB/mouse i'm not sure.
saw this http://www.ebay.com/itm/251224421182?hlp=false online for like $25 I can get a converter box which would be fine, but not sure worth getting. specs for systems I got are like 64 bit 100mhz CPU *2 max 2GB ram, 4.7 GB HDD. don't think worth investment. But if sun still uses these setups I could see doing that since could be handy in future.
any ideas whether they still do this or are they standard now with USB, VGA or DVI? just curious too any idea of suns market percentage right now?
thanks for any info first experience with sun product also.