Originally published at: A modern take on the original Macintosh keyboard
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Would it be perverse to say I would miss the old-timey coiling phoneline cord?
Ooo old man yells at cloud time!: What is it with gratuitous wireless-ness? Wireless requires: (a) a solid bluetooth connection which can be (needless paranoia) snooped upon semi-remotely, (2) forces the whatever unit to be re-charged at vague intervals, (iii) if it’s ear-phones could have diminished sound quality.
In summary: give me wires dammit! (so many @#$ reviews of head-phones and none of them wired… [mutters decay into the background])
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It’s no Nimitz.
Hmm, may have to snag one of these and play around a bit - Wombat ADB-USB Input Converter | Big Mess o’ Wires (bigmessowires.com)
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I have a Keychron which claims to be wireless.
Set it up - connects, then the Mac drops the connection. Unpair it, pair it again, connects, drops… rinse and repeat. Finally a stable connection, use the keyboard, go away, machine goes to sleep, click the mouse - ‘what keyboard?’
It’s now a wired keyboard.
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You’d need something more like this for the original Mac keyboard, which predates ADB and used an RJ-11 serial connection.
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I got my first wireless mouse not long ago due to a lack of any decent wired options available locally when my old one died. It took me far too much googling to determine why it wasn’t mousing smoothly. Apparently it didn’t like the dongle being plugged into any of the dozen USB ports on the back of my computer. Instead it only works properly plugged into one of my limited number of front USB ports. 
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