Re: Apple IIgs Keyboard

[Greg Berigan <gberigan@cse.unl.edu>]

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>Uber <uber@wizvax.net> wrote:

>> 3. I hear that you can use old MacIntosh keyboards on a IIgs...
>>    Is this true, and, what are the pinouts on the back of the
>>    keyboard itself?

> It is true, but not the OLDEST Macintosh keyboards.  The
> keyboard must be Mac SE or newer.  That means that a
> keyboard for a PowerMac you bought last year WILL work
> on the IIgs BUT that if you think you can plug a Mac Plus
> keyboard into a IIgs, you will be dissapointed.

Not all SE and newer keyboards will work.  The Apple Design Keyboard
(the one that splits down the middle and can adjust the angle between
the halves) doesn't work.  Also, the keyboard used on the iMac won't
work either.

> The keyboards that use telephone cord plugs won't work.
> The ones that use S-video type cables will.

AFAIK, that is true, except for certain Mac keyboards.  (There may be
others besides the AppleDesign.)

I don't know about the keyboard for the 20th Anniversary Mac.  I haven't
looked at what kind of connection it has.  Indeed, I haven't had the
time yet to see one in person.

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