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From: taro@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Taro Nobusawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: make your own ADB cables
Message-ID: <1948@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 88 20:55:45 GMT
References: <8806081643.AA00568@primost.cs.wisc.edu> <143@thelink.UUCP> <1727@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
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In article <1727@puff.cs.wisc.edu> t-mccann@puff.cs.wisc.edu (L. I. McCann) writes:
>In article <143@thelink.UUCP>, oliver@thelink.UUCP (Joel Sumner) writes:
>> In article <8806081643.AA00568@primost.cs.wisc.edu>, mccann@CS.WISC.EDU ("Lester I. McCann") writes:
>> 
>> Can't you just route the ADB cable around the back of the machine and hook it
>> on the other side of the keyboard?  I am left handed and I do this so I can use
>> the mouse with my left hand..
 
>I was thinking of a small box that would allow you to attach the keyboard
>at the end of the cable chain, instead of in the middle.  Something like
>this:  GS ----- Mouse ----- Keyboard.  With the current setup, moving the
>keyboard to your lap often causes the mouse to take a brief plummet to the
>floor.  If this little box could be anchored to the machine (or a desktop,
>or whatever), moving the keyboard would have no effect on the mouse.

 
Kinda how the Mac SE ADB is setup, huh.  If you can find the female ADB 
connectors
it should be pretty straighfoward, it is a bus so I think you could probably
just pass it straight through and tap off the buss.

GS port>  1--------+--------1 >keybr
                   |
                   1
                   v
                 mouse    and so on for the other lines
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