Timeline for Can the ADB keyboard and mouse be converted to the 128K Macintosh?
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| Sep 19, 2017 at 2:21 | comment | added | Chris Hanson | Good thing then that you can’t use PS/2 hardware without an adapter either! | |
| Sep 18, 2017 at 12:28 | comment | added | cbmeeks | @scott.squires my main reason for asking the question is that I see "pre-SE" Macs on eBay all the time but they almost never come with a keyboard or mouse. Or, the seller sells them separately because he knows how rare they are. Which is frustrating. I'd love to have a 512K Mac and I don't want to use PS/2. At least a small ADB would be "somewhat" accurate. :-) | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 5:44 | comment | added | scott.squires | I'm not sure if cbmeeks needs ADB peripherals specifically, or just asked about that because it seemed to them the most likely thing to exist. | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 5:40 | comment | added | snips-n-snails | With so many unpowered adapters hooked inline, you may need supplemental power to avoid frying your Mac's keyboard and mouse ports.. | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 5:29 | comment | added | snips-n-snails | Ok here's the missing link: an active USB-female to PS/2 male adapter: kvm-online.de/index.php?cat=WG230&product=KMU2P | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 5:18 | comment | added | snips-n-snails | Then there's the Wombat which will convert ADB<->USB, but I don't think it talks PS/2 on the USB port so a passive USB to PS/2 adapter may not work. | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 4:51 | history | answered | scott.squires | CC BY-SA 3.0 |