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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: ADB Devices
Keywords: ADB
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Date: 15 Feb 90 16:10:55 GMT
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In article <1154@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes:
>In article <35820@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> vogt@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Vogt) writes:
>>Does anyone know of /or use an ADB converter device.  I need to purchase
>>a new keyboard and mouse, but would like to use it on a newer mac (if
>>I can ever get the bucks).  I've currently got a plus.
>
>Olduvai at one time sold a product called the "ADBridge" which allowed one
>to use ADB mice/keyboards/graphics pads on non-ADB machines and vice versa.
>I have no idea if they still offer the product for sale, but that would be
>a starting point.

They canned the project -- it never made it to market.  Supposedly they
were having problems getting it to work.

It was a nifty idea, though...



Ken


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