I suspect that there probably is not a good way to do it. There may be
an adapter that someone's made.
If it's not ADB somehow, you'll probably have to examine the
communication it does with the computer it was designed for and make
your own adapter.

On Mar 7, 1:05 pm, Dave Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all!  Does anyone know if there's a way to use the original  
> Macintosh keyboard & mouse with a Mac running OS X?  I'm not talking  
> about something that uses the Apple Desktop Bus, I'm talking about the  
> keyboard and mouse that came with the original Macintosh 128K, the  
> M0110 and the M0100. The keyboard uses an RJ11 connector, while the  
> mouse uses a DB-9 (actually DE-9?)  connector.
>
> I spent an afternoon trying to find a record of someone doing this  
> online, focusing mostly on the keyboard side, but with no luck.  I did  
> find a tantalizing reference to there being some kind of open-source-
> design keyboard adapter 
> athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#Compatibility
>   , but it's not cited so I don't know whether to put much stock in it.
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> -dave barker

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