Challenge S question

Challenge S question

[ralf]

Short question, the Challenge S is headless.  Does it still have the
keyboard controller and keyboard and mouse ports in the hardware?

  Ralf

Re: Challenge S question

[Bob Mende Pie]

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> Short question, the Challenge S is headless.  Does it still have the
> keyboard controller and keyboard and mouse ports in the hardware?
> 
>   Ralf
> 

It should.   The challenge/S is a indy with the following changes.

.	Pull the graphics card out of it.
.	Put an IOplus card where the graphics card goes.
	An ioplus has two WD33C95A controlers on it and a 2nd eithernet
	that is the same type as the onboard ec0 but is IDed as ec3.
.	Put diffrent sheetmetal on the back of the box so the connectors on
	the IOplus line up with holes.

                    /Bob...                    mailto:mende@sgi.com
              http://reality.sgi.com/mende            KF6EID

Re: Challenge S question

[Richard Masoner]

Ralf asked:

> > Short question, the Challenge S is headless.  Does it still have the
> > keyboard controller and keyboard and mouse ports in the hardware?

And Bob answered:

> It should.

The two Challenge S's I've had, and the one I currently have, do
not have keyboard and mouse ports.

Refer to page 3-32 of the SGI Hardware Developer Handbook R2.0 for a
diagram of what the Challenge S has.

Richard Masoner

Re: Challenge S question

[Richard Masoner]

Ralf asked:

> > Short question, the Challenge S is headless.  Does it still have the
> > keyboard controller and keyboard and mouse ports in the hardware?

And Bob answered:

> It should.

The two Challenge S's I've had, and the one I currently have, do
not have keyboard and mouse ports.

Refer to page 3-32 of the SGI Hardware Developer Handbook R2.0 for a
diagram of what the Challenge S has.

Richard Masoner

Re: Challenge S question

[ralf]

On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 10:27:22AM -0600, Richard Masoner wrote:

> And Bob answered:
> 
> > It should.
> 
> The two Challenge S's I've had, and the one I currently have, do
> not have keyboard and mouse ports.
> 
> Refer to page 3-32 of the SGI Hardware Developer Handbook R2.0 for a
> diagram of what the Challenge S has.

Modern world, there things that exist but not officially.  I was asking
because I had a Challenge S report in my private email that would only
make sense if the machine still has the keyboard controller.

  Ralf