Re: AppleDesign Keyboard on IIgs?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3420@swuts.sbc.com>,  <JB3819@JB3819.SBC.COM> wrote:
> 
> In article <ZYya6N8.robert5874@delphi.com>, <robert5874@delphi.com> writes:
> > I've been told that an ADB will work, but what the heck is
> > an ADB Keyboard?
> 
> Any modern MAC keyboard is an ADB keyboard.  Apple started using the Apple 
> Desktop Bus when they came out with the IIgs and ported them over to the 
> Macs.

Other way around - ADB was developed for the Mac, and was ported to
the IIgs.  The IIgs was the first released computer to use ADB.  The
Mac SE followed about four months later.

> MOST any Mac compatible keyboard will work with the IIgs, though 
> there may be some caveats with the new one that splits in the middle.

Definitely.  It doesn't work at all on the IIgs.  A special driver
would be required to use it.
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