Re: USB input devices?

[cranem@athenet.net (Michael Crane)]

On 28 Jan 1999 22:08:15 GMT, jacc7621@aol.com (JACC7621) wrote:

>Those adb-usb converters are for using a adb peripheral on an iMac.

I thought as much.  Making an ADB device function on an USB bus is far
more technologically feasible than making a USB device function on an
ADB bus.  It's a simple function of data speed - ADB to USB only has
to send data on the USB bus when there's data available from the ADB
device, but a USB to ADB device would have to slow many USB devices
down to the speed of the ADB bus!  As I've said before - there's a
reason why scanners, Zip drives, floppy drives, etc. haven't come out
with an ADB connection - it just isn't suited to that sort of use.