Re: NextStep

[Danny Sauer <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

My roommate bought it when I (we) lived in Urbana, now I have it.  I'm
pretty sure that it originally came from UIUC, back when students could
buy them - the student rate was the only affordable way to get them.  It's
SN xxxxx503xx, and given that about 50,000 were built it's probably one
of the last ones.  It's a color turbo ADB with the sound box, floppy, and
all original internals.  Whee.

If you're looking to buy one, they're fairly cheap from www.blackholeinc.com.
A color turbo slab runs $79, and the matching monitor is another $79
(I'm setting mine up to netboot right now - the old hard drive is too loud).
A full setup with the slab, mouse, kbd, sound, monitor, and 32MB with NS
installed runs like $350.  Considering the cool factor of having a NeXT
box (I learned scheme on them at UIUC circa '95 - my first programming class),
that's not too bad.

comp.sys.next.* are helpful too (and suprisingly still active).
http://groups.google.com/

--Danny

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:15:50AM -0600, A Perl Monger wrote:
> So where'd you get your hands on a NeXT missing a CD? I remember playing 
> with those toys back in my UofI days - circa 1990...
> 
> --PM, who's not looking for a NeXT but wouldn't mind having one given to him...
> 
> At 07:37 AM 11/7/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:05:47AM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
> >[...]
> > > Does anyone know of a good source for NeXT info, or does anyone here know
> >
> >In case anyone else is looking:
> >http://www.peanuts.org/faq-serve/cache/1.html
> >
> >--Danny, who always finds what he's looking for *after* posting to the 
> >group...
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