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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: fossala on Sat, 21 January 2012, 01:49:47

Title: Sun type 5c
Post by: fossala on Sat, 21 January 2012, 01:49:47

I have just bought a sun type 5c keyboard. I know it doesn't work with PC's but it was only £6 BNIB with a mouse. Is there any way to get it to work with PC's (Linux) because I heard they where quite nice rubber domes.

Title: Sun type 5c
Post by: alaricljs on Sat, 21 January 2012, 07:46:06

This (http://www.bedroomlan.org/sun-keyboards-usb) is the only project I found but it was never finished.  Also there is at least 1 device that can do 5c to USB... and it's damned expensive (~$200).

Sun 5c boards are some of the nicest RD's I've ever had.

Title: Sun type 5c
Post by: flyball on Sat, 21 January 2012, 07:54:52

http://kentie.net/article/sunkbd/

Title: Sun type 5c
Post by: alaricljs on Sat, 21 January 2012, 08:05:56

Cooool.  Shame I'm not into the 5c like I used to be.

Title: Sun type 5c
Post by: RSSonic92 on Sat, 21 January 2012, 09:16:49

there is one of those lying around in our department in at university, I'm not a fan of those rubber domes...

Title: Sun type 5c
Post by: hasu on Sat, 21 January 2012, 09:21:42

kbdbabel has a SUN-PS/2 converter. http://www.kbdbabel.org/
and this is a USB converter. http://gis.sakura.ne.jp/sunkey/sunkey_e.html

I found this site flyball posted offers a complete specification of sun keyboard, which describes
protocol and scan codes. Very nice! I'll make my own if I got a sun keyboard in hand.
http://kentie.net/article/sunkbd/KBD.pdf

Title: Sun type 5c
Post by: fossala on Sat, 21 January 2012, 13:12:46

Thanks guys. I will check something out. I don't really want to build my own pcb. I was hoping someone had done some work with a teensy, maybe it could be my first hardware project.