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Ah, apple keyboards and ADB. I worked in a lab full of Mac II, IIc, and similar vintage computers. The irritating placement of the home key nubs drove me nuts
by cduzz 3y ago
Ah, apple keyboards and ADB.
I worked in a lab full of Mac II, IIc, and similar vintage computers. The irritating placement of the home key nubs drove me nuts -- I eventually vandalized all the keyboards by shaving off the nubs on D and K and putting marks on F and J.
The lab networked all the computers together to the laser printer using whatever that ADB networking gizmo was, which was super neat -- no other computer in the lab had networking; a couple of the PCs had serial connections to terminal servers.
- olyjohn 3y agoWas that the old school AppleTalk network? I remember we had some Mac Plus's in the lab at my middle school. They were all decked out completely though. I think they even had external 1GB hard drives on them. Plus they used that ADB networking connector, so we could transfer files between them and a file server.
- cduzz 3y agoA little poking around -- perhaps the ADB and appletalk ports are different. It's been a while. The macs in the labs were amazing compared to the PCs. The difference between a IIcx and some random 286 of roughly the same vintage.