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Re: Adding a new key to a wireless ADB keyboard?



Glenn Jones wrote:

The reset key is the one that lets you power a Mac up correct? So does that
mean that this keyboard would not work for older mac's like the LC575 that
need that key to power on?

There was a bit of discussion on Mac groups about this keyboard a while
back. The reset key starts a Mac by shorting the 5 volt to ground. The
reciever has a passthrough connector so solution on Macs is to make a
device with a short piece of ADB cable  that has a button to short those
pins. This doesn't seem work as a substitute for the reset key on the
IIgs as holding down the Control and Apple keys while shorting those to
pins apears to do nothing.

For a IIgs if no other solution came up and you didn't want two
keyboards attached, you could remove the circuitboard from something
like the Apple Design keyboard which uses about a 2" x 5" board and
use that to generate the reset signal.

Wayne