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Offline dante

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Do Apple Extended keyboard cables have a substantial amount of gold in them?
« on: Sun, 07 December 2014, 00:36:12 »
9 out of 10 boards are missing their cables.  Was just curious if the cables were being dissected for gold  :p
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Re: Do Apple Extended keyboard cables have a substantial amount of gold in them?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 07 December 2014, 07:54:58 »
Nope, the stupidity of detachable cables. If they can be unhooked, they can be lost.

We all have drawers full of useless obsolete cables. They get tossed indiscriminately.
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Re: Do Apple Extended keyboard cables have a substantial amount of gold in them?
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 07 December 2014, 08:59:33 »
I've been wondering the same thing after looking around for one on eBay. lol You don't see the same thing happening with Model M's with detachable cables as much, but I guess that's because people generally see the value in them more than the AEK/AEK II.
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Re: Do Apple Extended keyboard cables have a substantial amount of gold in them?
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 07 December 2014, 10:57:59 »
Not a big deal, honestly. ADB is physically identical to S-Video, so just grab one of those cables if you don't mind the color mismatch.
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Re: Do Apple Extended keyboard cables have a substantial amount of gold in them?
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 07 December 2014, 17:37:05 »
Quote from: Jotokun on Sun, 07 December 2014, 10:57:59
Not a big deal, honestly. ADB is physically identical to S-Video, so just grab one of those cables if you don't mind the color mismatch.

Good info to know.
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Offline Findecanor

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Re: Do Apple Extended keyboard cables have a substantial amount of gold in them?
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 08 December 2014, 04:05:12 »
Except that the original cables are in the right shade of grey and have the ADB logo.
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Re: Do Apple Extended keyboard cables have a substantial amount of gold in them?
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 08 December 2014, 04:36:20 »
If anyone needs an ADB cable, I have a few, and I’d be happy to mail one out for the cost of shipping.
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Re: Do Apple Extended keyboard cables have a substantial amount of gold in them?
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 08 December 2014, 04:41:33 »
Quote from: Jotokun on Sun, 07 December 2014, 10:57:59
Not a big deal, honestly. ADB is physically identical to S-Video, so just grab one of those cables if you don't mind the color mismatch.

Unless the pinout is incomplete. I bought the S-video Cable which had only two pins connected, other were unpopulated with wires ;) Was happy that I got one for a mod, was sad when I cut it just to see only two wires were present ;)
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Re: Do Apple Extended keyboard cables have a substantial amount of gold in them?
« Reply #8 on: Mon, 08 December 2014, 07:35:02 »
I have used S-video cables many times with no problems.

And, the good-quality audiophile ones are probably much better, wire-wise, than the originals.
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Offline RoflCopter4

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Re: Do Apple Extended keyboard cables have a substantial amount of gold in them?
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 09 December 2014, 12:26:45 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Mon, 08 December 2014, 07:35:02
I have used S-video cables many times with no problems.

And, the good-quality audiophile ones are probably much better, wire-wise, than the originals.

I'm not sure what you mean by better. I don't know about anyone else but I've never had issues involving harmful interference with my keyboard cable.
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