From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 12:21:29 PDT
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:16:58PM -0700, Martin Joseph wrote:
>
> On Aug 9, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Jim Grich wrote:
>
> > Alex,
> >
> > If you deem the utility FreeKey to be, indeed, free, I would love to
> > try it with my Mac. I posted a question a couple of weeks ago about
> > hooking a Mac serial keyboard directly up to a Newton 2100 and was told
> > it could not be done.
> >
> There is no such animal as a mac serial keyboard, at least not in the
> rs232 sense of serial...
>
> Apple's mac keyboard interface went from a non standard 9 pin (db9) to
> the fantastic ADB, to USB...
Eh? What db9? The Plus and prior used a phone handset-like cable.
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