tgl@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) (03/02/91)
I recall having heard once that certain older Series 200/300 machines have HIL keyboard controllers that don't know about the 98203C (HIL Nimitz) keyboard. In these machines you can't use that keyboard with Basic (it might work with HPUX, though ... does HPUX use raw keyboard input?) If anyone remembers this and knows how to tell which machines have the old keyboard controller, I'd appreciate hearing from you. -- TIA, tom lane Internet: tgl@cs.cmu.edu BITNET: tgl%cs.cmu.edu@cmuccvma
steve-t@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Taylor) (03/04/91)
In /comp.sys.hp/ tgl@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) // asks: | I recall having heard once that certain older Series 200/300 machines have | HIL keyboard controllers that don't know about the 98203C (HIL Nimitz) | keyboard. In these machines you can't use that keyboard with Basic | (it might work with HPUX, though ... does HPUX use raw keyboard input?) The 98203C keyboard isn't supported by HP-UX on any machine. The HP-UX drivers don't know how to handle a device which is both a keyboard and a relative positioning device. You could probably talk to one as a raw HP-HIL device if you told X and the ITE to ignore it. | If anyone remembers this and knows how to tell which machines have the old | keyboard controller, I'd appreciate hearing from you. An old price guide says there an upgrade kit for Series 300s shipped before 1 September 1986 to use this keyboard, so that's when it changed. There was a part number change on the 8042 keyboard controllers, but I don't have that information. Here's another way (-: if you have an (old, long obsolete) HP-HIL Vectra keyboard, plug it in and type a few keys ... if the 300 seems to go crazy, you have the old, non-98203C, controller. Regards, Steve taylor NOT A STATEMENT, OFFICIAL OR OTHERWISE, OF THE HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY.