Re: Possible to adapt a //e keyboard to PC?

[Lockar <lockar@nospam.com>]

  Now see, I was the totally opsite.  I hated the Apple //gs keyboard. 
I loved the Macintosh Keyboard II (the one that came with the Mac
Classic).  More spaced out and it had the ~ in the right place to use.

        -Lockar


In article <br838s$pue$1@acme.gcfn.org>, Dave Althoff Jr
<dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote:

> Scott Alfter (salfter@salfter.dyndns.org) wrote:
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> : In article <f%uBb.18835$3Eb1.12608@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>,
> : Tim Haynes <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> : >I would be ecstatic if I could adapt a IIgs keyboard for use by a PC.  This
> : >must be possible - ADB to PS2??
> 
> : If I'm not mistaken, ADB-to-USB adapters are available.  They're intended
> : for hooking ADB keyboards and mice to newer Macs, but as long as it shows up
> : to the computer as an HID and not as something weird, it should work with
> : anything that'd take a USB keyboard.
> 
> On a related note...
> 
> If I used one of those ADB-USB adapters, would I need to do anything
> special to make it work with OS-X?  I hate having to type on my Mac.  It's
> not just that the CONTROL key is in the wrong place, it's that the
> gigantic Macintosh keyboard is GARBAGE compared to the IIgs keyboard
> attached to my IIgs...!
> 
> --Dave Althoff, ][.