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• timcederman 8y ago
  The keyboards themselves didn't have the V, it was the extension cord, and it was because it was out of USB spec. If you push hard enough, any old USB port went in just fine.
• garblegarble 8y ago
  >Apparently you're not old enough to remember those apple "USB" keyboard plugs with the little v-shaped indentations so you couldn't plug in non-apple approved devices. Wasn't that because of the extender cable? As I recall extenders couldn't be USB compliant, so apple made a notch in the extender so that it wasn't technically a separate USB accessory from the keyboard?
• ken 8y ago
  Do you mean the extension cable that came with the original Apple USB keyboard? It was only for the extension cable -- which are prohibited by the USB spec, so it was technically a "captive" extension. (The USB specs define captive as having a non-standard-USB plug, even if it's not physically captive.) Blame the USB spec, not Apple. They're actually the only company I've ever seen make an extension cable that meets the letter of the spec.