Friends
Here we go! I’m using a 33-year old Apple M0110A keyboard with a Drakware adapter to type this on my iPad, and it’s glorious. Spongy keys making noisy noises is just the start. The other great part of this is the keyboard’s physical height, which is absolutely perfect for typing from the couch in front of the teevee. The election is next week and this is looking like my weapon of choice to push my dumb thoughts to the blog that you (probably) can’t get enough of.
Except for one thing: There’s no good blog editor for self-hosted WordPress that works on an iPad. Not without crashing. Not without a lengthy session repairing the problems imposed by the editor.
Maybe this keyboard will work great on a laptop…
Your pal,
– bob
UPDATE: What’s that you say? Where’s the love for the Apple Desktop Bus? You know me, I’m down with the ADB. I picked up an adapter for ADB as well as the original Mac straight-through phone cord connector and I’m enjoying the Apple Keyboard II with the Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II. What’s missing? The second button on the mouse, which is easily solved with a Ctrl+click. Scrolling is a harder problem because windows on modern Macs have disappearing scroll bars. Grab them before they go away, because they will go away. Vintage computing is fun.
