[geeks] Anyone know of good sources of 5V DIMMs?

[nate at portents.com]

> On 6/18/06, nate at portents.com <nate at portents.com> wrote:
>> BTW, it's a little-known fact that up until the Intel based MacBooks
>> came
>> out, all the keyboards in Apple's portables were still ADB-based.
>
> That's not accurate.  The last revs of the G4 powerbooks was USB
> based.  There was a big to-do about folks trying to get the
> "two-finger" touchpad scrolling working on the prev. revs that were
> still ADB.

Oh yes, when Apple decided to do their own trackpad, they finally moved to
USB keyboards.  Still, that means that Apple only stopped using ADB about
a year ago.  Considering the technology was first introduced on the Apple
IIgs in 1986 (previous to it's use in the Mac II and Mac SE introduced a
year later), that's a pretty long run.  Anyone know how that compares to
the oh-so-glorious PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports, which have yet to be
purged from current x86 machines?

> A fellow who wrote a really nice piece of software to do this, some
> other keyboard hackery, and also enabled "half keyboard typing" in his
> plugin.  He was threatened by the half keyboard vendors with a lawsuit
> if he didn't disable the latter.

That was an earlier version of uControl, right?

http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol/

Apple has their own keyboard remapping in the OS now, so uControl isn't
being developed anymore.

- Nate