NEXT Keyboard question

From: Ian Primus <ian_primus_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat Mar 1 21:21:22 2003

On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 09:50 PM, Mike wrote:

> A friend has a slab but is missing the keyboard.
>
> Will a MAC keyboard also work?

Possibly. It depends on the slab. Most NeXT machines used a proprietary
keyboard, but some of the later ones used ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) and
were therefore compatible with Macintosh keyboards. A quick way to
check is to look at the bottom of the sound box, if the first three
characters in the serial number are "ABN", then you need a true NeXT
keyboard. I think the ones that used ADB had a prefix of "ADD". Unless
the system can use ADB, you are probably better off getting an actual
NeXT keyboard off eBay.

Ian Primus
ian_primus_at_yahoo.com
Received on Sat Mar 01 2003 - 21:21:22 GMT