Wanted: iAPX-432

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sun May 27 16:13:06 2001

On May 27, Brian Chase wrote:
> > Those sure are nice boards. They're quite powerful for video hacking,
> > as well as very good at paying a good percentage of my rent for the
> > past few months. 8-)
>
> Really? Well, I must ask what it is you're doing with them :-) I finally

  Selling the little buggers on eBay. They go for anywhere between
$250 and $500, and I picked up about twenty of them for less than $20/ea.

> got my hands on a NeXT 040/25 Cube, saved from the dumpster. Someone had
> written "TRASH" in permanent black marker over every one of its six

  Oh, nice. This person must be found and killed. Slowly.

> surfaces. As it turns out though, the only thing wrong with it was that
> the internal SCSI cable was unplugged from the drive. Cosmetically it
> leaves a bit to be desired, but it's a nice performer since I've upgraded
> it to 64MB of RAM.

  Cool!

      -Dave McGuire
Received on Sun May 27 2001 - 16:13:06 BST

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