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    Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) is a proprietary bit-serial peripheral bus connecting low-speed devices to computers. It was introduced on the Apple IIGS in 1986...
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    mouse. In September 1986, Apple continued a year of major change by converting its mice and keyboards to the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB). Newly redesigned,...
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    successive desktop Macs for the next two years. It was the first commercially released Apple mouse to use the USB connection format and not the Apple Desktop Bus...
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    key on Apple Desktop Bus keyboards (which were used on both the Apple IIgs and several years of Macintosh models) where it remained after the Apple II line...
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    computer from Apple with a color graphical user interface (color was introduced on the Macintosh II six months later) and the Apple Desktop Bus interface...
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    computers. The keyboard attaches to the computer via the Apple Desktop Bus port. The last Apple computer released compatible with this keyboard without...
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    adjustable height legs in the AEKII and other minor changes. Both used Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) to connect to the host computer, with ports on either side to...
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    1986 Apple first implemented the Apple Desktop Bus allowing the daisy chaining of up to 16 devices, including mice and other devices on the same bus with...
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    USB (redirect from Universal serial bus)
    interfaces such as serial ports, parallel ports, game ports, and Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) ports. Early versions of USB became commonplace on a wide range...
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    The same mini-DIN connector is used in the Apple Desktop Bus for Macintosh computers. Apple Desktop Bus cables can be used for S-Video in a pinch. Other...
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    PS/2 port (redirect from PS/2 bus)
    communication protocol. However, unlike the otherwise similar Apple Desktop Bus connector used by Apple, a given system's keyboard and mouse port may not be interchangeable...
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    mimic all the features of the Apple Desktop Bus keyboard; and some cards designed for the Apple IIGS did not fit in the Apple IIe's slanted case. In the...
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    1980s and into the early 2000s. They were introduced on the first Apple Desktop Bus keyboards in the 1980s and have been a standard feature of many Macintosh...
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  • as a third category, the expansion bus.[clarification needed] Universal Serial Bus (USB) FireWire ACCESS.bus Apple Desktop Bus "Peripheral bus" v t e...
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    cables and ports are almost invariably serial—such as PS/2 port, Apple Desktop Bus and USB. The cables that carry digital video are also mostly serial—such...
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    such as system buses (also known as internal buses, internal data buses, or memory buses) connecting the CPU and memory. Expansion buses, also called peripheral...
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  • Command key (redirect from Apple key)
    In 1986, the Apple IIGS was introduced. Like the newer Macintosh computers to come, such as the Macintosh SE, it used the Apple Desktop Bus for its keyboard...
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  • 1/8 inch minijack phone connector S-video DIN plug (also used for Apple Desktop Bus) Component video RCA connector RGBHV Digital video HDMI (High Definition...
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    ports. The Blue and White G3 was also the last Macintosh to include Apple Desktop Bus ports, a proprietary technology created by Steve Wozniak to connect...
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  • earlier than USB, it never gained the popularity of USB. Apple Computer's Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), introduced in the mid-1980s, allowed all sorts of low-speed...
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    connector that included wiring for the monitor's built-in speaker and the Apple Desktop Bus connector for the keyboard. The mouse plugged into the keyboard. The...
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    IMac G3 (redirect from Apple iMac G3)
    company and simplified the product line. The iMac was designed as Apple's new consumer desktop product—an inexpensive, consumer-oriented computer that would...
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    keyboard itself. The mouse supplied was the Apple Mouse known as the Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II (M2706). A slightly updated model, the Color Classic II,...
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  • Android Debug Bridge, a command-line tool for Android Apple Desktop Bus, a bit-serial computer bus for connecting low-speed devices to computers Active...
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    the last horizontally-oriented desktop model offered by Apple until the introduction of the Mac mini in 2005. The Desktop model received an update in August...
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  • the USB connection. Prior to the iMac line of systems, Apple used the proprietary Apple Desktop Bus for its keyboard connector. Wireless keyboards have become...
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    Mac Studio (redirect from Apple mac studio)
    small-form-factor workstation computer developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is one of four desktop computers in the Mac lineup, sitting above the consumer-range...
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    expansion slot. First Macintosh to support the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), previously only available on the Apple IIGS, for keyboard and mouse connections. Improved...
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    Macintosh SE, was the first Macintosh to use the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) introduced with the Apple IIGS for keyboard and mouse interface. The primary...
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  • machines required additional support for the first expansion slots, the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), internal hard drives and, on the Macintosh II, external color...
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