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- From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
- Subject: Re: An upgrade path? (was Re: The road to NeXT hell is paved with ADB keyboards.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.131010.14086@gagetalker.com>
- Sender: scotty@gagetalker.com
- Organization: L5 Computing
- References: <1992Nov2.145153.16285@glv.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:10:10 GMT
- Lines: 21
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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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