An upgrade path? (was Re: The road to NeXT hell is paved with ADB keyboards.

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From: James Clifton Elam
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 14:51

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In article <1992Nov2.033627.16955@gagetalker.com> scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott  
Turner) writes:
> And despite what NeXTWorld reported in their Winter 1992 issue there are
> no "upgrades" for older NeXTstation Turbo Color systems.
> 

Scotty -

I think I found an accidental upgrade path. I thought my turbo-mono had a  
problem with my network h/w. The new motherboard they were sending out was ADB  
compatible. All (!!) I had to do was buy a new keyboard and monitor. (The old  
monitor/keyboard would work, and they said I could mix and match an ADB  
keyboard and old monitor. Interesting.)

So, that means one could upgrade under warranty by....

Nahh, that would be unfair to NeXT....

--
James "Cliff" Elam   | jcelam%confused@glv.com - NeXT mail!
(919) 460-3240 (v,w) | NeXTStep/Intel + IB + DBKit @ $200 !   
(919) 460-3295 (fax) | All I want to do is go home now, please.

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