CAMPBELL@UTOROCI.BITNET (01/13/89)
In v7n83, Mike Sokolo(v) (sokolov%media-lab.media.mit.edu) asks about keyboard extenders. We wanted to do the same thing (put the workstation pedestals in another room) for our 3/260C and decided just to buy the Sun 50' extender kit (part # CBL-KYB-50FT), for about US$200.00. When it came, it was just a cable; no active components. It was sheilded, however, and required a new connector piece to be soldered (!) onto the keyboard circuit board to connect the shield to. The hardest part of the job was finding a torx screwdriver. Unshielded cable should have greater distance than shielded, so I'd be optimistic that 100' would work. I'm pretty sure that the signals are just rs-232, which we all know goes a lot further than the 50' it's spec'd for. We just used RG59 for the video, with no ill effects, even with the TAAC. (See my other posting for a semi-related problem) Chip Campbell VAX System Manager Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto Bitnet: campbell@utoroci