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From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons")
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Subject: ADB with IBM keyboards--probably not
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Date: 16 Feb 89 06:10:48 GMT
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>Date:         Wed, 15 Feb 89 05:32:07 HST
>From:         Tom Jenkins <tomj@PRO-PAC.CTS.COM>
>Subject:      APPLE and IBM Keyboards

>Anyone have a idea as to how the IBM keyboard would interface on the Apple
>IIgs?  Seems that one would just have to figure out how the ADB works, then
>'wire' up the connectors, no?

No.

Well, only if IBM keyboards happen to use a protocol identical to the
Apple Desktop Bus.  That would surprise me in the extreme.

You could _probably_ build a device to go between the GS and the IBM
keyboard, but it'd probably need a microprocessor in it.  The Apple
IIgs Hardware Reference manual has ADB info in chapter 6.

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