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Re: MacIvory keyboard

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From: Gary Palter
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:00
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At 2:17 PM -0400 6/11/99, <reti@wilson.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
>    Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 02:11 EDT
>    From: Peter Paine <p@abstractscience.freeserve.co.uk>
>
>    I seem to remember that there was a difference between the normal new
>    Symbolics keyboard and the MacIvory compatible one (via ABD box).  Can
>    anyone detail what that difference is?
>
>I don't think there was a difference.

There were two flavors of the new Symbolics keyboard.  One had a LED for
the Caps Lock key.  It's possible that the LED put the power consumption of
the keyboard over the limit for an ADB device.  (I'm speaking from
extremely vague memories, of course.)

>    PS. Previous post concerning VIU-C box and color monitors, I meant
>    multisynch color monitors of course.
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