Re: Mac128k keyboard good for GS?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article tmmadden@engin.umich.edu (Thomas M. Madden) writes...
>
>In article <4trcrg$42j@news.ysu.edu>,
>Adalbert Goertz <be404@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:
>>Would the keyboard/mouse for the Mac 128k work with the //GS?
> 
>No, they won't work at all. 

   That's incorrect concerning the Macintosh 128 mouse. Though your right  
the Mac keyboard with its obscure RJ-11 phone jack connector will not.

>The IIgs uses ADB input devices, which became standard issue on all macs 
>after the Mac SE in 1987. The Mac 128k/512k/512ke/Plus have funky keybords 
>and older-style mice that won't work with the IIgs.

   With an Apple IIe Mouse interface card, you _can_ connect up any
old style Macintosh mice (with DB9 connector) to a IIgs. Simply plug 
the card into slot 4 and set the Control Panel for that slot to
'Your Card'. I recall it being more usable on a ROM 01 than the ROM 3
(GS/OS won't recognize it in the latter case) but there is really little 
point in doing this.  It would be as redundant as installing a Disk II 
controller, Super Serial Card or other cards which function is already 
built-in.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca