[geeks] Anyone know of good sources of 5V DIMMs?

[nate at portents.com]

> The B&W G3 had an ADB port. Although it does work for a keyboard and
> mouse, it was not supposed to. It was designed for a monitor that used ADB.
> (For what I don't know).

The ADB on some of Apple's monitors was used to communicate with them, so
that you could adjust the monitor completely from software, rather than
have a menu system built into the monitor.

The real reason ADB was retained as a port on desktops up until the first
model G4 was that a lot of high-end prepress and other A/V software still
used ADB hardware dongles.

BTW, it's a little-known fact that up until the Intel based MacBooks came
out, all the keyboards in Apple's portables were still ADB-based.

- Nate