1 Mar
2003
1 Mar
'03
12:57 p.m.
A friend has a slab but is missing the keyboard.
Will a MAC keyboard also work?
Does anyone have the pinout to let him rebuild one?
1 Mar
1 Mar
1:21 p.m.
Mike wrote:
A friend has a slab but is missing the keyboard.
Will a MAC keyboard also work?
Should. I've used NeXT ADB keyboards on my Mac.
Jim
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1:21 p.m.
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(a)yahoo.com
1:59 p.m.
Depends on the slab. If it's a non-ADB slab, the answer is no. But
real non-ADB keyboards go for $10-15 on ebay. It will also dependo n
his ROM version. It has to be v.74 or better to use an ADB keyboard.
Does he have the NeXT mouse? If it's a rectangle it's non-ADB, if it's
round it's ADB. Also is the slab a color slab or a mono slab? If it's
mono, he will need the N4000a or N4000b monitor, if it's a color slab,
he will need the soundbox and the Y cable.
James
Mike wrote:
A friend has a slab but is missing the keyboard.
Will a MAC keyboard also work?
Does anyone have the pinout to let him rebuild one?
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