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From: pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark)
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Subject: Re: NeXT keyboards
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Date: 8 Feb 91 22:13:12 GMT
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Here's my $0.02 worth:

I would like to see NeXT adapt Apple's Desktop Bus standard. At the risk of
annoying the religious folk, the Desktop bus strikes me as being a great idea.

Letting the user choose what input device to use, whether it's a mouse or a
trackball or a digitizing pad, or a keyboard with or without function keys,
and whether it's from apple/NeXT/datadesk/whoever, is surely part of computing
access for the masses.

I love the next, and I prefer the old keyboards. I wouldn't mind being able to
take the old NeXT keyboard and attaching it to a mac or a pc, for that matter.

	Pete Clark