Monday 23 January 2017

History of the World in Apple Objects (2) : M0110 Apple Macintosh Keyboard

A Macintosh is nothing without a mouse but also is a bit pointless without a keyboard too. M0110 was the original Macintosh keyboard from 1984. It was connected to the Mac via a telephone style connector. It isn't a bad keyboard to be honest with a reasonable feel and has a nice chunky solid feel about it.

Apple wanted people to only use the mouse to select items so the keyboard has no arrow keys. It also didn't have a numeric keypad. This came with the M0110A keyboard in 1986 for the Macintosh Plus. Both keyboards are displayed below, the M0110A is a fair bit bigger and also has arrow keys though has a similar feel.