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The New NeXT Keyboard

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From: Joe Jacobson
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:26
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	Just read the Winter 92 issue of NeXTWORLD.  I see that NeXT has
finally gotten around to using ADB devices.  (The first time I saw a NeXT,
the first question I asked, after wiping the drool off my chin, was "So, is
the keyboard on a desktop bus?")

	For those of you who do not have the good fortune to have a 
subscription to NeXTWORLD, the new keyboard is a ADB compatible, ergonomically
designed piece of art.  With a new command bar, help keys, and better placed
unix keys, (for all the people who still haven't figured out how to remap the
NeXT keyboard...), PLUS a hockey puck for mouse.  I've always considered a
round mouse an obsenity, having grown up with a brick for a mouse, but NeXT 
seems to think that they have got something, so I'm willing to give it a try.

	The command bar seems to be the most outlandish thing.  But, 
there is supposed to be a check box in Preferences to switch the function of 
the help keys, (located where the command keys are now), with the command bar.

	Basically, NeXT has finally got the keyboard that the hardware 
deserves.

				Joe
				marauder@wam.umd.edu

#  Hey, these opinions are my own.
#  Hey, if you're gonna flame me,
#  at least have the courtesy to 
#  flame in proper NeXTMail.  :-)
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