Re: Will my old USB "one button mouse" and USB keyboad work with new iMac?

From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Will my old USB "one button mouse" and USB keyboad work with new iMac?
Date	2015-03-31 08:23 +1200
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In article <mfc831$sg8$2@dont-email.me>, sctvguy1
<sctvguy1@invalid.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:57:26 +0000, Jolly Roger wrote:
> > On 2015-03-30, sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> wrote:
> >> Will these work with my new(to me) 20" iMac?  They are USB, probably
> >> USB 1.0.  I did not order the keyboard/mouse that came as optional with
> >> the refurbed iMac.  I think that it should work, but I still have
> >> computers with PS/2 ports!
> > 
> > Any USB mouse and keyboard should be fine.
> 
> Thanks, JR.  My old Apple keyboard, which started out white, is now 
> yellow!  It is the one with two USB take-off on the top, the original one 
> that came with my 2002 iMac.
> Another question: Is there any worth/market for one of the those chrome 
> necked, swivel monitor models?  I have so limited room, that I cannot 
> keep a lot of "toys" around anymore?  

Check eBay, Craigslist, etc. Because of that design, they are still
quite popular.

> Also, would any of my apps that I bought over the years, like Thoth, 
> SuperDuper transfer to the Intel iMac, or are they only PPC?

That depends on the applications themselves and the which version of
Mac OS X you're running. 

Some applications created over the transition period are "universal
binaries - they contain both PPC and Intel code, so work on Macs with
either chip type.

Apple stopped supporting PPC code in Mac OS X 10.7 ("Lion") - versions
of OS X from that onwards do not have the Rosetta software to
"translate" the PPC code on the fly, so PPC applications cannot be run.

You can use a PPC emulator like SheepShaver to run an older OS and
possibly still use those applications. I'm not sure what the highest
version of Mac OS that Sheepshaver itself can run though.

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