It's been awhile (hi, new stuff, help, apologies, etc...)

From: Jason McBrien <jbmcb_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed Jul 19 11:37:33 2000

I'm positive the AppleCD 300's will boot NeXTstations, from personal
expereince. Check the NeXT FAQ's for the complete list, I think they're
still on peak.org. Also, if you poke around the net enough you can find the
full schematics for all NeXT hardware.

Lately Apple has been flaky about sending out OS CD's. One of my friends got
the whole OpenSTEP enchilada, even the HP/SPARC/Intel editions, and an old
copy of WebObjects. My other friend has been waiting five months for his
CD's to arrive. Your milage may vary.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Gregory" <gregorym_at_cadvision.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: It's been awhile (hi, new stuff, help, apologies, etc...)


> ----Original Message-----
> From: Mike <dogas_at_leading.net>
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 8:13 AM
> Subject: It's been awhile (hi, new stuff, help, apologies, etc...)
>
>
> I rushed home with my new MegaPixel, fondiling it along the way, and
> immediately hooked everyting up. Power! ...Well, it boots. I get to the
> NeXT rom monitor ver 1 rel 46 and can exercise the machine from there. It
> doesn't have the floptical in it and a 'b sd' boot command returns a read
> capacity error on the scsi hard disk. With the rom monitor I can boot to
an
> ethernet attress or scsi target. Is there anyway I can get a disk image
of
> ole NeXTStep on a compatible scsi drive and can I use something like an
> Apple scsi CD-ROM with it?
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I'd recommend contacting Deep Space Technologies (www.deepspacetech.com).
> They're a NeXT vendor of long standing, and they still sell NeXT hardware
> and parts. They sell hard drives formatted with NeXTstep as part of their
> systems; they'll probably be willing to unbundle one for you. Licensing
> isn't an issue, since Apple takes the very sensible position that
possession
> of the hardware entitles you to run the OS. However, you got an
exceptional
> deal on your NeXT, so you may pay as much for the drive and OS as you paid
> for the rest of the system.
>
> Almost any SCSI CD-ROM will work with a NeXT. I don't know if a Cube will
> boot from CD-ROM, (I never had a CD-ROM when I had my Cube), but if it
> will, you could get a copy of NeXTstep on CD (see next paragraph) and do
an
> install to any SCSI drive you have lying around.
>
> You should also contact Apple and request the Year 2000 Upgrade/NeXTstep
3.3
> upgrade from them. If you send in your machine's serial number, they'll
send
> you free of charge a CD containing the last version of NeXTstep and some
Y2K
> patches. I believe you can also request Openstep if you prefer that.
>
> You should also try and get an optical drive - a Cube just isn't complete
> without one. Brand new ones were selling on eBay for reasonable prices
> ($30-40 IIRC) 4-6 months ago.
>
> Enjoy your Cube!
>
> Mark (who has a mild case of seller's remorse after parting with his Cube
a
> few months ago)
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 19 2000 - 11:37:33 BST