Re: The Apple IIGS ADB Keyboard Lives!

[tim@buffnet.net (Tim)]

> I think that the GS keyboard was the original Frog Design one. That era of
> design is better than anything Apple has done up until now. And you know
> what? The iMac/BWG3 keyboard looks very similar. Dang, now I'm getting all
> nostalgic, sniff, I think I'll go find it.

My two cents on the GS keyboard....I like the size.  It's small (like the
GS), but just big enough for my fingers to type on.  It isn't cluttered
with extra buttons I won't use. 

However, I am on my 3rd one.  The first two both had the same problem--the
ADB plug (on the side that I plug the mouse into) goes bad.  After so many
solders, they just can't be fixed anymore.  (I know I should not keep
unplugging my mouse all the time, but my computer gets moved around a
lot.)

Had it been a hardy piece of hardware that is a durable as practically
everything else in the Apple II line, I wouldn't be able to stop praising
it.  But as it is...I can only rate it as so-so.

  -Tim

BTW:  What is a frog design?