Wanted: adaptor to use older Mac keyboards with IIgs

[buggie@ben16.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

    Has anyone looked at the original Macintosh keyboard?   It uses a
telephone-style cable.   Its a really cute and compact keyboard, with the
fine feel of IIe-type keyswitches.   A slightly later version (Fat Mac
512) even had a numeric keypad.

Could anyone design/build an ADAPTOR so that this early (pre-ADB) keyboard
could be used with the IIgs?  I saw this keyboard for $3 at a thrift shop
---- passed it bye.

The IIGS "stealth" version has an IDE-26 male connector on the
motherboard, and it can use either an ADB keyboard or the IIe keyboard.
(The IDE-26 connector can be added to any IIgs motherboard.)  

Making the required adaptor is beyond my skills, but I wish that somebody
out there would design it.  In my opinion, the finest "keyboard feel" is
the IIe, and this early Mac detached keyboard has the same switches! Steve

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