Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 21:54 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote:
>> Wilson A. Galafassi Jr. wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I have some old machines with motherboard with DIMM (big connector)
>>>   
>> That should be 'DIN' connector.
>>
>>> keyboard. What is necessary to change in the configuration to this keyboard
>>> works fine?
>>>   
>> No changes are necessary.  Linux doesn't care whether it's ps/2 or AT 
>> style keyboard.
>>
>> Jim McQuillan
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
> 
> Listen to Jim, he's the man ;-)  
> 
> But, I wonder whether the OP should have been given some warnings about
> his choice of client hardware.  A far as I remember, AT keyboard
> connectors stopped being used after early 486 PCs, predating the
> earliest PIs.  Therefore, these boxes will probably also come with very
> little RAM and an ISA bus.  People have made these sort work, but the
> effort (ie, workarounds) is far greater than with a PII and newer having
> 128MB of RAM and PCI/AGP video cards of 4MB or better.  Just thought it
> fair to point that out, too :-)   
> 
> Gavin

I've got Pentium-1 machines, up to about 200mhz, with PCI slots, with the old 
5-pin DIN 
AT-style connectors.  They're not that rare.

Petre

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