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Do you guys (with multiple machines) stock extra keyboards and mice?

EvilCapitalist

Well-known member
All my machines have their own keyboard and mouse.  I've also got my "tech bench" combo (keyboard with a trackball where the numpad would be), a few NIB keyboards/mice, and a whole bunch of extra ADB keyboards/mice that I'm still not quite sure how I ended up with.  I think I probably have at least one Plus style keyboard that wasn't working quite right as well.

 

max1zzz

Well-known member
I have a couple of keyboard / mouse pairs for my hole collection, Just don't have the room to keep a pair for each machine

And I think the AEK II will be used with my mac pro oce i get around to buying / making a ADB -> USB adapter (so i'll be down to one pair)

 

Compgeke

Well-known member
I actually have a few more ADB keyboards than systems but only two mice. The Plus is still keyboardless.

I've only held onto the decent ADBs though, such as the AEK\AEK IIs and the 3rd party Alps ones. If I'm going to go through the effort of cleaning and storing might as well make it a good one.

 

Trash80toHP_Mini

NIGHT STALKER
I've always made a point of collecting every period peripheral imaginable for all my Macs, not one for each Mac. The Apple Display Unit runs off a wireless PS-2 KBD/Mouse on an Omni-View Mac Adapter/PS-2 KVM I bought new for the Q630/386 desk I built for the Rugger's bedroom back in the day. Other than the nicely sized "chicklety" IIgs KBD in the HackStation and an AppleDesign for its long. straight cord for the KBD drawer of the IIfx desk, everything else is in a box somewhere.

I hated the functionless ADB2 that came with the SE so much I bought the VT-100 form factor DATADESK MAC-101 almost immediately. By about 2002, I'd worn out two of them (the second one was used) and now I've got a third one in its box ready to set up for a period period correct peripherals set. One of my best eBay snags evah! [:D] ]'>

Since the hockey puck mice are way too small for my hands I want to bundle them up like a flower bouquet and hang them from the ceiling or something in my computer room. :D
I've always wanted to snag one of each fruity puck in order to arrange them in a shadow box to frame a 3-D mini-poster that says: Yuck! [:p] ]'>

 

ArmorAlley

Well-known member
Most of my Macs have their own ADB keyboard and mouse (except the PowerBooks), which are stored away in a cupboard. I bought a BlackBox 4-port ADB/DA-15 KVM switch precisely to avoid having multiple keyboards and mice. I have just an AEK II and a Kensington Turbo Mouse and they are nice.

 
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