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Mysteries of the Griffin iMate and the Apple Extended Keyboard II
vintage keyboard, a mysterious battery, and some questionable 1990s engineering choices... Keyboard For five years this classic keyboard has sat in my cupboard: This is an Apple Extended Keyboard II, released 1990.
I think either my Dad or I bought this at an ex-government auction in the late 1990s, together with a Macintosh IIsi that was briefly our dial-up modem router at home. There's some good info on the TMK wiki, including Wayback Machine links for Griffin's original iMate Support pages. Once you start thinking of ways to block the signal when USB is enabled, and unblock it when the keyboard is unpowered, then it's hard not to wish you had access to an independent voltage source like a battery...
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