An option for both optical mouse and external floppy drives is a USB
mouse or USB floppy drive. My daughter has an original iMac which (doesn't
have floppy drive or ADB mouse/keyboard), and I bought her a USB optical
mouse (it came w/ a tiny USB roller-mouse) and USB floppy drive and they
work great. I think her mouse is Kensington & think the external floppy
drive is LaCie. Of course if you don't have USB ports you'll have to put a
card in a PCI slot but they're pretty cheap. Combination USB/firewire cards
are also available; they require a power connection for the firewire.
An idiosyncracy of the USB floppy drive is you have to drag the floppy
icon to the trash before you push the button on the drive to eject it or it
can freeze the computer; she keeps a stickie on the desktop to remind
herself of that.
You have to install Mac drivers (extensions) for either device which
they should provide w/ the hardware. Drivers can usually be downloaded from
the manufacturers web sites also. A USB external floppy drive can work for
both mac and pcs as long as they have drivers for Mac. OWC would probably be
a good place to get all this hardware (http://eshop.macsales.com)
George
> On Saturday, September 20 Wilton H. Shaw wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I recently bought a Precision Optical Mouse on the Internet for my
>> G3
>> MT. The trouble is it doesn't fit my keyboard. The connection is
>> round, but
>> the pins are placed differently. I didn't know there were different
>> connectors for keyboards for Macs.
>> I guess I have to eat this item.
> to which Jack Russell replied:
> That's because the mouse connector is PS 2 for wintel boxes and the
> Apple keyboard uses ADB. They look very similar but are different.Sell
> the mouse to a wintel friend and get an ADB mouse. There are not many,
> but there are still some available. Last I looked both Kensington and
> Belkin still offered an ADB mouse.
and Ken Stone Ken Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
>> Subject: floppy drive?
>> I just realized that my G4 Sawtooth has no floppy drive (it's been ages
>> since I have had a need for one). What is a simple, low cost option for
>> external floppy drive? Can a drive sold for PC's also work?
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