Agreed. That is a _very_ good deal. The big difference between the cube
and the slab is that the cube incorporates a DSP on the motherboard while the
slab does not. The cube also has a backplane which supports up to four cards,
one of which is the main CPU board. In the case of the color cube, another is
used for the 32 bit color card (assuming you're getting a NeXT dimension board
with the cube). With a minor hack one can even install multiple cpu cards into
the cube chassis, network them together, and then boot each card as a separate
host. Pretty slick.
see:
http://www.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~heller/NeXT/NeXT.html
For folks wondering why I haven't been involved with the list much
lately... I've been dealing with a family illness and just don't have much
time. I do read messages every now and then, so I haven't forgotten about
classiccmp, I just have pressing responsibilities.
BTW: Russ! I just got the C64 you shipped me months back working. I
found a C64 Programmers reference with schematics at the MIT flea which helped
out tremendously. Pretty Cool! --jmg
> >Does anyone on the list collect NeXT systems? I had the chance to see
> >one the other day and now I am hooked... but they wanted 500 bucks for a
> >33mhz turbo color cube (IIRC...) w/ a 21" sony monitor. in any case,
> >(and i realize i'm stepping in a big heaping pile here) what's a
> >reasonable cost for these systems? after using afterstep for linux, i
> >would love to use nextstep and use the real thing.
> >
> >-Eric
>
> Smokin' deal - jump on it. If you decide later that you don't want it, I'll
> be happy to take it off your hands.
>
> R.
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Received on Thu Jun 25 1998 - 11:25:28 BST