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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2015-05-19 15:33:56
I was wondering if you fellow collectors/hoarders have enough keyboards and mice for your whole collection (and maybe spares) or just use a couple depending on which machine you are playing with?
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-05-19 15:42:55
Right now I only have one ADB set and one spare USB set. I do want to get another ADB set though.
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Posted by: tanuki65 on 2015-05-19 15:55:17
I have one ADB keyboard and one ADB mouse, that came with a Mac SE.
ADB computers I have:
- Mac SE (dual 1.44MB floppy drives)
- Mac IIci (160MB hard drive)
- PowerBook 1400cs/166 (my newest addition!) (1.3GB hard drive)
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Posted by: SuperToaster on 2015-05-19 16:26:12
I don't have any ADB keyboards or mice (should really get around to that) but I do have the matching keyboards and mice for my 2 iMac G3s and my Power Mac G4
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Posted by: techknight on 2015-05-19 16:28:19
Well consider this: the prices of keyboards/mice are starting to go up quite a bit. So anyone without them, or without spares, should consider getting one.
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Posted by: uniserver on 2015-05-19 17:11:40
or invest in one of these PS/2 to Mac Adaptors. https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/20171-ps2-keyboard-on-mac-plus/
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2015-05-19 17:14:46
I have bags of keyboards and mice. I have been lucky enough to seem to get 2 of each with every Mac I ever received.
Functionality may be in question but I am am set until I die I'm guessing.
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Posted by: snuci on 2015-05-19 17:19:18
I try to have a keyboard, mouse and monitor for each computer I have. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what keyboard is accurate for the model with Apple products. I also try to get a period terminal for earlier computers. I really like complete systems.
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Posted by: 3583Bytes on 2015-05-19 18:19:09
I always try for a full set, I may be 1 keyboard short. Need more bags through 🙂
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Posted by: Elfen on 2015-05-19 19:36:04
I have 1 mouse and 1 keyboard for most of my machines. The only thing is that I do not have KBs & Mice for duplicate machines. Like my LC pile - 4 LCs but 1 KB & Mouse. The SE\30 has its own KB & mouse, and the the IIcx/ci/ has their KB & Mouse but the duplicate IIci's and 1 space IIcx don't.
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Posted by: techknight on 2015-05-19 19:53:42
I wish I was that fortunate. I have random keybs/mice, couple keyboards are good. rest are super yellowed/cracked/dead, and a couple good mice. the rest are missing balls, or dont ride well.
I did manage to pick up a non-yellowed AEKII for 10 bucks at the hamfest.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2015-05-19 20:25:17
Well I was out grilling and digging (in the garage) for my ADB drawing tablet and found a couple of boxes of ADB keyboards and mice I forgot about. I have a few cleaned and in the basement lab but mostly I use ADB KVMs.
Just wondering if people are just using a couple machines at a time so they slack on keeping enough keyboards and mice.
I should clean up the rest of them sooner or later.
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Posted by: unity on 2015-05-19 20:49:52
I have one set I use to test machines, work on em, etc.
I have a bunch of 128k/512k but these are specific to each machine (date codes). As for ADB keyboards, those I have very few of relative to machines. ADB mice on the other hand, a whole box full.
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Posted by: jhorvath911 on 2015-05-19 21:39:20
I have enough for setting up 10-15 machines but would need at least double that to have a set for each.
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Posted by: Byrd on 2015-05-19 21:56:06
Box of about ten keyboard and mice under the house - various kinds of pre-ADB and ADB. Tend to keep Extended Keyboard IIs here, not so much the first Extended model.
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Posted by: Schmoburger on 2015-05-19 23:08:59
I have an entire cupboard full of them... Not sure I have enough for every single one of the 50ish Mac's I own, but certainly enough for every one that I would be using concurrently and then plenty left over.
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Posted by: Juliet Elysa on 2015-05-20 01:38:13
Eventually I want to have all the iMac G3s, with a matching keyboard and mouse. So far I have a complete bondi set (with two keyboards, though one's unusable junk) and my indigo iMac, but I can't remember if I still have a matching keyboard and know I don't have a matching mouse. If prices are going up, though, I may go into cat mode and start hunting for mice and keyboards even before I have the iMac to match.
Since the hockey puck mice are way too small for my hands I want to bundle them up like a flower bouquet and hang them from the ceiling or something in my computer room. 😀
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Posted by: bibilit on 2015-05-20 01:47:26
I have few of them, but not as much as my collection of machines, mostly because i am runing out of space and there are few differences.
I have square and round mice, and a set of keyboards.
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Posted by: galgot on 2015-05-20 03:06:16
Have two Al usb keyboards, a iMacG3 plastic one , and a MacClassic ADB.
Mice…. Many 🙂 Usual teardrop ADB shape : 2 beiges, 2 black, 1 grey. 1 squared shape ADB for the Classic.
1 wired Mighty mouse, 1 Bluetooth Mighty Mouse, 1 MacPro black/transparent, 2 usb iMacG3 round .
1 ADB non-Apple two-buttons mouse, can't remember the brand. And 1 ADB two-buttons NeXT , the strange shape one, work great on old Mac but I wish the squarish shape one was ADB...
And maybe 6 or 5 usb mice of various brands.
I collect Apple laptops, so don't know if I'm allowed to speak here 😛 but seldom use trackpads...
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