Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!draken!ianf From: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: ADB Devices Summary: ADBbridge no more Keywords: ADB Message-ID: <2959@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 16 Feb 90 07:32:44 GMT References: <35820@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1635@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1154@ux.acs.umn.edu> Reply-To: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 30 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. > > Yes, that's true, alas some time prior to MacWorld Expo in Jan., 1989 in SF they sold the technology, along with the product, to some tablet manufacturer, who was gonna incorporate it in its proprietary hardware. I know 'cause I made an attempt to buy such a device from the then, and in all probability still, President of said company. Accordingly to what he told me [and I managed to store in my non-parity bio-memory banks] there was not enough interest in the device for them to continue with the product. The undisclosed tablet manufacturer did not have any plans to release ADBridge on its own. From what I gathered there and else- where though, the device was built around some sort of a ROMmed code-table that translated both ways to and fro MacPlus to ADB. There should be ample space to recreate this kind of functionality then. --Ian Feldman / ianf@nada.kth.se || uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf / "Let's get out of this place and nuke it from orbit" -- Alien