Although it's a USB gadget, it doesn't work like a USB keyboard or macro pad. Instead, it draws power from one of your PC's USB ports while connecting to your motherboard's power switch header.

However, when I recently bought my Blue & White PowerMac, the USB keyboard has a power button.<BR><BR>I love having the power button on the keyboard? Anyone know why it is gone? Facts or myths are ...

10 minutes ago I was ruminating over a problem here at work, and just staring down at my laptop's USB docking station (Dell WD19S) while my mind churned through work-related thoughts. Then after I ...

[Ladyada] and [pt] had an old keyboard from NeXT, but since it used a custom protocol it wasn’t usable with modern hardware. So they built a custom device to convert the NeXT protocol to USB.… ...

A PS/2 keyboard sends your keystroke every time you press a key, as long as it has power. A USB keyboard is more polite, it won’t send your keystrokes to the PC until it asks for them.