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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: froogle on Wed, 24 November 2010, 18:47:01
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I'm looking to buy an adapter for an ADB keyboard so I can use it with newer computers that use USB or PS2.
I've heard that not all of these converters/adapters work for keyboards as they "map" differently...
It would be of great help if someone could just point me in a general direction of how much it is going to cost etc.
Thanks in advance!
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Anyone? Could someone just acknowledge my existence?
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Already impatient for an answer after 15 minutes?
I don't know the answer to your question, but try searching the forums for historical discussion and see what you can find there.
A quick search yielded a number of hits: 1st thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=11839), 2nd thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=9505), 3rd thread (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:8450), 4th thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=8239), and 5th thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=7930).
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Already impatient for an answer after 15 minutes?
I don't know the answer to your question, but try searching the forums for historical discussion and see what you can find there.
A quick search yielded a number of hits: 1st thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=11839), 2nd thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=9505), 3rd thread (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:8450), 4th thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=8239), and 5th thread (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=7930).
WHOAA?!! Where did you find them??!!
I searched for simply "ADB" and I got no hits...that's weird...
If there was a REP+ button I would press it but sadly I don't think that kind of system resides here....
Thanks very much! Sorry about being impatient! I'm about to bid in an auction.
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If there was a REP+ button I would press it but sadly I don't think that kind of system resides here....
Rep is determined by how many keyboards you packing!
I kid I kid :biggrin:
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Griffin imate.
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I searched for simply "ADB" and I got no hits...that's weird...
There's no good way to search this forum for things like that. The site search doesn't index 3-letter words (ADB, PS2, USB, ...), and Google returns a million useless hits from people listing their collections in their signature block.
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Uh, how about the geekhack wiki (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=PS2-to-USB+adapters)? Make Ripster happy, read it.
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Except that we're talking ADB to USB here and not PS/2. An ADB-to-USB adapters wiki would have only a single item.
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Except that we're talking ADB to USB here and not PS/2. An ADB-to-USB adapters wiki would have only a single item.
I think there's a less common Belkin, too, plus another basically functional but quirky adapter. That would make like 2 and a half.
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I think there's a less common Belkin, too, plus another basically functional but quirky adapter. That would make like 2 and a half.
The Belkin is cheaper, but I don't know if it works with Windows 7. I bought one and it's on route. Once I get my Apple Extended Keyboard, I can test the adapter.
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The Belkin is cheaper, but I don't know if it works with Windows 7. I bought one and it's on route. Once I get my Apple Extended Keyboard, I can test the adapter.
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=11839
You mean this one?
Please please please get back to me asap. I'm about to order my one as well! I've got my hands on the keyboard and I'm drooling over it...I really want to use it NAAOOOOWWW but I don't want to waste $10....I'm a miser lol.
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http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=11839
You mean this one?
Please please please get back to me asap. I'm about to order my one as well! I've got my hands on the keyboard and I'm drooling over it...I really want to use it NAAOOOOWWW but I don't want to waste $10....I'm a miser lol.
Unfortunately, I will be in the opposite situation. I will have the adapter but not the keyboard. I am still waiting to get the keyboard.
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Unfortunately, I will be in the opposite situation. I will have the adapter but not the keyboard. I am still waiting to get the keyboard.
:lol:
This can't get any more annoying rofl.
When are you expecting the keyboard to arrive?
I might just go ahead and buy it...it's only $10 and I suppose I can get a refund saying it's "defecitve" if I can't use it....
I doubt the fleabay powersellers selling these things even know what ABD is so I guess I could just get a refund?
Thinking....thinking....thinking.....
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When are you expecting the keyboard to arrive?
I don't know. I found an "Apple Extended Keyboard" in the local ads, and called the seller. She agreed to set it aside for me. I don't know that the keyboard looks like, there was picture. I gambled since it was only for $20. And since she lives about 1.5 hours from where I leave, and that her husband and sister sometimes have to transit through my city before going further north, one of them will bring it the next time they need to go up North. Free shipping in a way.
That said, I am meeting with one of a member here who lives in the same area as I do but in about a week or so. He has an AEK II.
I might just go ahead and buy it...it's only $10 and I suppose I can get a refund saying it's "defecitve" if I can't use it....
I bought mine from a seller in UK. The overall cost to my door is $27 (CDN). I don't know if I'll need to pay taxes once it's here.