A little bit about a little Mac

Smirk misunderstood an entry [1] I made last week, thinking that I wanted to keep the Mac mini [2] I was testing for work. He went ahead and ordered the PS/2 to USB (Universal Serial Bus) adaptor (and a few extras for the office) so I could use a real keyboard (along with DoubleCommand [3] since the IBM keyboards I use don't have Windows keys).

At that point, I figured I was having so much fun with the Mac that I might as well keep it, seeing how it was below steet price to begin with.

But that wasn't my intent with the entry. At the time, I was cursing the keyboard I was using and wishing I could use an IBM PS/2 keyboard. It was then I decided to search Google [4] for a “PS/2 to USB adaptor” and lo'—there it was.

So I really meant: “Ask Google, and ye shall receive.” Not “ask Smirk, and ye shall keep.”

But I kept the Mac mini anyway.

[1] /boston/2005/08/18.1

[2] http://www.apple.com/macmini/

[3] http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/

[4] /boston/2005/08/26.2

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