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Is there a device to connect a USB mouse to an ADB port?
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Feb 6, 2001, 05:32 PM
 
Is there a device that will allow me to connect my USB Apple Pro Mouse to the ADB port on my PowerBook G3? I know I can use a Cardbus USB adapter to make use of the mouse but using the Cardbus method forces me to disconnect my mouse each time I want to watch a DVD movie (the Wallstreet has a hardware decoder card). Aside from that, I’m guessing that when OSX ships next month there will be no Cardbus support and therefore, again I’ll have no mouse.

I know there must be some sort of adapter to do this, in fact I already have an adapter that will do the same thing for a PC (it came with my Intellimouse Explorer).

Does anyone know what might work?

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Feb 7, 2001, 08:33 AM
 
I work for a reseller of all kinds of Mac products (who I will not shamelessly plug in this forum) and have never seen such a device. Many adapters exist to bring older peripherals to newer USB Macs, but not the other way around. I'm afraid you are probably out of luck.
     
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Feb 7, 2001, 11:57 AM
 
No.
     
   
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