You might be on your own for figuring out the best way to connect your liberated keyboard up ... going full on matryoshka and putting a second computer inside of one, it’s truly the laptop ...

The 5-pin DIN keyboard connector used with the first IBM PC (1981) and second-generation IBM AT (1984). It was subsequently replaced with the smaller 6-pin Mini-DIN connector on the IBM PS/2 in 1987.

The NeXT computer was introduced in 1988 ... set about figuring out how it worked. The keyboard features a type of DIN connector and speaks a non-ADB protocol to the machine, but [Spencer ...