Subject: RE: PS/2 to ADB Adapter
From: Sam Moore (samiwas@macconnect.com)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 13:14:34 MDT
I found myself in this situation with two 7500's, and chose to go the other way
- I put a USB PCI card in each and bought three-button mice for them.
Belkin has a nice selection, including their great "Classic" mouse for ca. $15.
The USB card costs ca.$35, and of course then you have USB for other stuff if
needed.
Also I have a KVM switch at home which is USB-only, and that 7500 now gets along
with it nicely (the other one's in the office). Altogether USB does seem to
represent the future...
The only drawback of this approach is that on starting MacOS you don't have
mouse (or keyboard, if you've switched that too) until the USB extension loads,
so you've got to think about how you configure BootX for example, if you use
that. Probably better to have it default to MacOS at startup...
For the record I have no clue whether the PS/2-ADB scheme would work.
On 5/22/01 at 9:01 AM, tamorgen@aol.net (Timothy Morgenthaler) wrote:
> I forgot to mention, here's the link to the adapter for anyone else in
> my situation:
>
> http://www.gee3.com/ps2adb.html
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Morgenthaler [mailto:tamorgen@aol.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:53 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: PS/2 to ADB Adapter
>
> I've been looking for a solution for finding a 3-button ADB mouse for a
> while, and I've come up with 2 lousy alternatives. The first is use a
> 2-button ADB mouse, and then emulate it for 3 buttons, by holding both
> buttons. It's a fair solution, but not great. The second solution is
> use a trackball, which there are many ADB of, and they usually have 4
> buttons. I'm really not keen on trackballs, so this isn't a great
> alternative either. I was about to give up and simply buy the two
> button mouse, when I came across another alternative, which might work.
> It's a PS/2 to ADB adapter, which would allow me to plug a PS/2 mouse
> into the adapter, and then plug the adapter into the ADB port on my Mac
> keyboard. Does anybody see any reason that this wouldn't work? The
> software that is included is of course for the MacOS, but I'm thinking
> this is only for emulating the extra buttons that the Mac doesn't know
> what to do with. Any thoughts from anybody out there in Yellowdogland?
> Thanks.
Sam Moore <smoo@lungta.org>
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