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In article <BvtMFH.CAC@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)  
writes:
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> 
> The ADB support is in the N4000B MONITOR.  So, theoretically, if you
> were to sell you N4000A monitor from your old cube/station and buy a
> N4000B monitor, you could use an ADB keyboard.  This is unofficial,
> as I have never heard anyone say you can do this.

Since ND owners cannot upgrade to the new keyboard by simply changing to the  
new sound box, and since the old mono monitor and soundbox used the same sound  
PCB, you can probably assume the new monitor and soundbox use the new ADB PCB.   
From that you can derive that just buying a new mono monitor will not work.  I  
understand the boot ROM is different, also.  Otherwise, how could you talk to  
the boot monitor, which runs without any OS.

If the above is true about the same ADB PCB being in the soundbox, and display,  
and to do otherwise would've been MORE work, then IF NeXT offers a ROM upgrade  
to use the ADB keyboard, THEN existing mono monitors could be upgraded, by  
buying and gutting a soundbox, at worst.

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> David Lemson                                                (217) 244-1205
> University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
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Jim