Using older keyboard and mouse

Greetings:
I have a new MacMini w/ Tiger 10.4 OS.
I can't seem to get comfortable with / adjust to the smaller Apple keyboard.
I wish to find an adapter so that I can use my older Apple extended keyboard and a Kensington track ball.
I can't for the life of me think of what the 4 pin standard Mac connector is called so that I can find a USB -? cable to hook it up.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
Fred

Fred, I use an Apple Extended II ADB keyboard connected to my Mac with a Griffin iMate, and it works well. I do have an occasional problem with caps lock, where if I tap it fast enough that it doesn't fully depress and lock down it'll engage with the key up instead of down, and you then need to click it down to switch caps lock off (if that makes sense), and it doesn't allow all the startup key sequences (such as holding the 'c' key down to boot from CD), but otherwise it's a vast improvement over the newer USB keyboard.
BTW, F12 on the Extended keyboard is the same as the eject key on the new one.

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