What gives? (additional)

[Eric Dunbar]

The B&W was basically an ADB computer that had USB added as window
dressing. USB as an interface is great for hot-swappability but for
reliability I'd give it a D- (especially on the B&W). Perhaps it was
the iCrap keyboards that Apple had the stupidity of using (along with
the _horrible_ mouse) but I have had nothing but bad experiences with
USB (other than the benefits of hot-swappability). Fortunately my
PowerBook G3s keyboard isn't using USB :) (do the newest G4 powerbooks
use USB yet for their internal keyboard interface?).

I never had any good experiences with USB keyboards on my B&W
(couldn't do half of the emergency Mac commands... command-ctrl-power,
command-option-escape... my (awesome) ADB Extended Keyboard II worked
flawlessly, never missing a beat) so I traded my USB keyboard for some
gadget or other (which gave me a lot more pleasure than the crap
keyboard that came with the iMacs/B&Ws/early G4s).

I'm curious as to why you can't use the open firmware command with your B&W?

Eric.

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:57:25 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich
<daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> AFAIK, the iMacs and B&Ws came with the same keyboard.
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:39:38 -0400, GDB-B&W-X.3.5 wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> >
> >>Kensington... That may be a problem in and of itself. See if you can
> >>borrow a genuine Apple USB keyboard for a quick test.
> >>
> >>On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:13:29 -0400, GDB-B&W-X.3.5 wrote:
> >>
> > I have a Apple USB keyboard on my iMac, will that work?
> >
> > Just a message from Doug...