On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, William Donzelli wrote:
> It is for an MO (magneto-optical) cartridge. I do not think it is one of
> the standards (if there is such a thing for MOs and WORMs).
>
> The NeXT cube certainly is a neat box, and is probably one of the best
> looking machines ever made. The inclusion of the MO drive and _no_
> harddrive in the first models was a really stupid move on Jobs' part (ever
> notice that he does that from time to time?), as it really made the
> machines' disk access painfully slow. His original idea was that the MO
> drive was to be the entire "world" for the user, so one could carry around
> a cartridge and instantly turn any NeXT cube into their own machine.
A great concept as far as I'm concerned but, as always, way ahead of its
time.
> > I forgot
> > what it was called an all that, but anyway, this lady, as stupid as they
> > come, wanted $10,000 for this thing. Ok, now I know sometimes people just
> > don't know what stuff is worth, but I'm sorry, nobody is going to pay
> > $10,000 for an old computer system, I don't care how big and impressive it
> > looks, and especially NOT at a swap meet.
>
> People like this learn quickly, after many people walk away, sometimes
> laughing or muttering comments under their breath, and finding that at the
> end of the day, they still have the machine. Did you go back and check out
> the price when everyone was packing it in? It probably ended up being far
> less than $10,000.
No. Actually, she's SO stupid, she won't sell it unless she gets $10,000
for it. And I'm not joking. I've dealt with this lady before. She had
one of the Radio Shack data terminals with the thermal peper (basically a
copy of the TI Silent 700 data terminal) and I wanted it because it is a
fairly unique radio shack product. So I asked her how much she wanted and
she said something stupid like $100. I KID YOU NOT! And she was adamant
about it too! Of course, as I'm sure you're all well aware, I'm not one
to give up so easy and went into full haggle mode. First I asked her,
"$100!? Does it run Windows95?" Of course she didn't get it. Anyway, I
ended up getting it for $20 (still more than I wanted to pay I might add)
only because her husband jumped in and talked some sense into her. Plus
there was another shopper there egging her on to go lower. So it was 3 to
1 and I broke her silly ass. I didn't go back at the end of the day
because I forgot, and even then this thing is SO big I couldn't get it
into my Honda Civic (I mean, this thing would probably crush my puny
little automobile). It was very neat though. She says she has two of
them, so I'm sure she'll be hauling that stupid thing around in here truck
for a couple years.
> Then again, some people are so stubborn that they will not read the
> market, and will keep the machines forever.
I told her if she kept it for 50 more years she might be able to sell it
for what she wants for it. She'll probably die before that thing sells.
Dumbass.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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