I have a wireless keyboard and mouse from Microsoft. Instead of a little dongle, like the wireless mice have now, they use a big one. It is about the size of an old style wired mouse and the wire is about 6 feet long. It is a nice set, but doesn’t work well with my desk.
Over the years I’ve used it for different situations, most recently I’ve had it connected to a computer that was connected to my TV. When I got my iRulu, I wondered if a regular keyboard would work with it, rather than the small one that came with it. It worked, but surprise, surprise, so did the mouse. It looks kind of ridiculous, a full sized keyboard and mouse attached to a little 7″ screen.
When I first tried out Kegs, I booted it with the System 6 hard drive image, using the little keyboard. I realized System 6 really needed a mouse. You could move the mouse cursor around using the touch screen, but that was actually kind of clumsy. I tried the Microsoft keyboard and mouse, but the mouse didn’t work, so I set it aside for a couple of days. This morning I was doing some reading on Kegs and found out that Kegs would use the mouse, but you had to press the F8 key to tell Kegs to use it.
This gave me the opportunity to explore the System 6 hard drive image. There is a folder with shareware that is going to get a pretty thorough check.
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