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

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From: Scott Turner
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 13:10

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In article <1992Nov2.145153.16285@glv.uucp> jcelam@confused (James Clifton  
Elam) writes:
|> 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....
Not to mention not covered by your warranty if they catch you at it.

And I don't see how you can plug an ADB keyboard into an old mono monitor, the
plugs are different. My ADB mouse certainly doesn't plug into my Megapixel
mono display.

Scotty

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