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ADB Keyboard and Mouse

Mars478

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So today I went to a thrift store in hopes of finding any old macs. Nada, Later on in chinatown, I thought i'd stop by an old hardware shop which sells electronics and Keyboards and Mice and Phones, and Broken video cameras, old motherboards from 1900. Truly a junky store. But the exact place I would spend hours in. Tons of boxes, with electronics. I went hunting through that store looking for Apples. Zilch. While moving my eyes around the store. I saw a rainbow. That all to familiar rainbow. I looked for it again, and What did I find? An Apple extended keyboard II. I asked the lady how much it cost, 6$. I asked if they had an Macs, and she said no. I asked her if she had any Apple mice. She said she mightve seen one, but there was only one left and she pointed me to a general direction. I went in that general direction and started uprooting boxes, and finally arrived to the box with mice. There were TONS of Mice, but Sun, PS2, and others, where the only ones I saw. After further digging, I saw a block. The glorious apple block mouse. It was the LAST one in the whole store. I asked her how much? And she said 3$, So in total I bought both for 9 Bucks. And I felt happy that I had retrieved some sort of apple device. All in all, This makes it my fourth apple keyboard set. In the pictures there will be only three, because my other set is in NJ with my IIcis, My IIci conquest came with only one keyboard and one mouse., so I may donate this set to one of them. Pics:



Pictures newer than the one linked are of my newest conquest.

 
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NO FAIR!!

i don't have _any_ adb keyboards, or any Apple-branded adb mice!
What the deuce? Until recently, (when I raided wthww's room) I had more Apple ADB mice than I had Macs to plug them into. :I

 
What I am going to do to remove the yellowing is put the plastics in a bucket of bleach. Would that work?

 
I have about 6 ADB keyboards and Mice.

I get them for free a lot of the time.

If you need them they can easily be found on freecycle, at least in my area.

 
I've heard of using a mix of Oxy Clean and hydrogen peroxide to remove yellowing. Not sure of the specifics but it may be worth googling/binging/yahooing etc.

 
Yeah, otherwise known as Retr0bright. I haven't used it myself but IIRC some members here have had success with it.

 
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