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Cockbrandtoday at 9:48 AM1 replyview on HN

As someone has pointed out in the post's comments, there's the Wombat ADB-USB converter as an alternative. Doesn't look as good, but requires no battery or other power supply. IIRC, it does distinguish between left and right Shift/Command/Option keys. Quickly looking at the product page I realize that it even converts both ways, so you can also use it to attach your USB keyboard to your ADB Mac or NeXT.


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Findecanortoday at 10:09 AM

On ADB keyboards with two Command keys, both keys result in the same code being sent — so it is impossible for a converter to distinguish between them.

I have seen that on the AEKII the two keys' switches are even electrically connected on the circuit board.