[rescue] For all the Model M keyboard fans:

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Tue Nov 21 17:52:56 CST 2006


Tue, 21 Nov 2006 @ 13:51 -0600, Bill Bradford said:

> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 02:41:37PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Where do you find Model M (ish) units with USB?  Or are you using a
> > converter?
> 
> http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/customizer.html
> 
> Available in both PS/2 and USB.  I have one of each; they accidentally
> shipped one PS/2 when I ordered both as USB.

Excellent.

Price is $60, which is really not bad given the quality of the
keyboards.

Does the Windows key map to the Apple key by default, or do you need to
run a utility.

I could be pretty happy being able to share a Model M instead of
something I don't really like.

> I bought one of those, and found out that every time I rebooted the Mac, I
> had to unplug/replug the keyboard from the USB adapter in order to properly
> re-init it and get the system to recognize it.  I switched to the
> half-the-price Sabrent adapter, and it works just fine.

Good to know.

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our very souls pass overseas." -- Exile]



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