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Two-Button NeXT Mouse ADB
Posted by: AEChadwick on 2022-08-21 19:02:50
this is old news (i got the mouse on eBay years ago), but I haven't seen anyone else throw this flex

here is my NeXT two-button ADB mouse attached to a PowerBook 550c

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using TheMouse2B
Posted by: joshc on 2022-08-21 19:12:32
Nice. You can do the same with the NeXT keyboards which were also ADB. They're a bit pricey these days, I should've held onto mine.
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2022-08-21 19:22:11
Having a 550c on its own is a massive flex. Man am I jealous!

I also can’t help but notice that you’ve done the US Keyboard mod - I assume you took a standard US blackbird keyboard and swapped the key caps from a 190/5300 board? It was someone on this forum who I heard about that mod in the first place from, maybe it was you!
Posted by: AEChadwick on 2022-08-21 19:23:24
I should've held onto mine.
(we're not even going to talk about the early 2000s “why do i still have THIS?” purge; we lost several good men that day...)
Posted by: AEChadwick on 2022-08-21 19:30:44
I also can’t help but notice that you’ve done the US Keyboard mod
buddy gave me a broken PowerBook 190, it sat in a box with a broken 520c for almost two decades until i finally got a 550c... THEN i read about that mod! here at the MLA just like you!
Posted by: Iesca on 2022-08-21 22:25:55
Steve really liked his circular mice it seems... At least this one seems easier to keep properly oriented than the later iMac mice.
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