Re: Keyboard? What Keyboard?

[Marc Miron <klasco@nebula.on.ca>]

>--On Sunday, June 04 2000, 02:20:47 Jonathan Levi, M.D. drjlevi@netonecom.net
>wrote:
>
>>The "small din connectors" you mention (4-pin mini) connect to the Apple
>>Desktop Bus, or ADB;they are the ones for keyboard, monitor and mouse. My
>>monitor and keyboard each have two of these connections as well, giving me
>>multiple configuration options; mine is
>How do you plug your monitor into a 4-pin mini din?? The monitor would plug
>into an Apple Monitor plug or nowadays, a VGA plug. These do *not* resemble
>the ADB socket...

Hi!

I think what he meant by saying the monitor plugs into these ports is that
on some Apple monitiors, there are extra ADB ports so that they can be
closer to your reach if you box is in a hard to reach place.  These ADB
ports on the monitor are feed by an adb cable that connects to your box.
But, you misunderstanding seems to come from the idea that the video signal
comes from these ports when in fact, the video signal comes from a standard
Apple video cable that attaches to your computer not from the ADB cable
that runs the ports on the monitor.



Hope that clears it up a little,
Marc