beachycove
Well-known member
Yesterday I installed 7.1 on an LC475, with an early "Apple Keyboard" and a square mouse attached. These were OEM SE/30 peripherals, as far as I can gather, but they came to hand out of the pile first, and I figured I'd simply swap another keyboard in later. Never had any problems doing that general sort of thing before.
Installation went fine. Then today I did the swap with several other known-working keyboards: the "Apple Keyboard II" was the first one I tried, then later ones. Booted up, wanting to install some applications, but none of the later keyboards worked on the LC475. I thought originally that I might have blown the ADB port, but then in a moment of inspiration/desperation I reconnected the keyboard from the SE/30, and everything worked again. Very odd.
This is new to me, and I have been around the Mac world for a good while (though my experience of pre-1991 hardware is very limited). It is, of course, possible that the adb port is simply flaky, but is there a control panel or extension that was not installed because the older keyboard was attached initially?
Help appreciated!
Installation went fine. Then today I did the swap with several other known-working keyboards: the "Apple Keyboard II" was the first one I tried, then later ones. Booted up, wanting to install some applications, but none of the later keyboards worked on the LC475. I thought originally that I might have blown the ADB port, but then in a moment of inspiration/desperation I reconnected the keyboard from the SE/30, and everything worked again. Very odd.
This is new to me, and I have been around the Mac world for a good while (though my experience of pre-1991 hardware is very limited). It is, of course, possible that the adb port is simply flaky, but is there a control panel or extension that was not installed because the older keyboard was attached initially?
Help appreciated!
