NeXTstation Turbo with accessories.

[Anonymous Freak]

Just scored a NeXTstation Turbo, with a whole lot of accessories.

The main slab, 33 MHz 68040, 16 MB RAM, 600 MB hard drive (not positive on the hard drive size, I'll check later.)

NeXT MegaPixel Display (17", grayscale)

SCSI CD-ROM drive (actual NeXT one.)

NeXT Laser Printer (Same basic guts as an Apple LaserWriter II, HP LaserJet II or III.)

Keyboard, mouse.

Quite a bit of software, including what I believe is every release of NeXTSTEP that will run on this hardware.

While a more common machine than my IBM Personal Computer Power Edition, I think I like this one better; largely because it's a complete setup.

 

[Unknown_K]

Cool, show some pics of it running if you have time.

 

[Quadraman]

Everybody gets a NeXT but me. AAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

 

[Moofo]

I have one... In fact Two B&W Slabs 1 color Slab and one B&W Cube !

I actually prefer the B&W machines, they are faster...

Enjoy !

 

[krfkeith]

I have a turbo color slab

 

[ChristTrekker]

If an '040 NeXT fell into my lap, I'd definitely keep it, but it isn't something I go out hunting for.

Still, that's a swell collection you acquired there. Have fun!

 

[TheNeil]

I have the case for a colour slab...sadly none of the insides though :-/

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Alright. Posted a quick album of pictures. (Pictures taken with my QuickTake 200, of course.)

http://homepage.mac.com/ehurtley/PhotoAlbum133.html

What's really funny is that this is my second computer to have a 2.88 MB (aka "4 MB", aka "ED", aka "Extra-High Density") floppy drive. The other is an IBM PS/2. Yet, the two computers are completely incompatible. NeXT won't read DOS floppy disks, and of course, DOS and OS/2 won't read NeXT floppies.

 

[Unknown_K]

Looks nice, the monitor seems decent too.

I also have a PS/2 with a 2.88MB floppy drive, never seen the required medai for them.

 

[slomacuser]

nextstep reads both the macintosh and ms-dos diskettes

http://www.levenez.com/NeXTSTEP/redirect_NeXTstation_pdf.html

my pictures of next hardware

http://slomacuser.blogspot.com/2007/07/black-hardware.html

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Interesting... NEXTSTEP 3.3 that I have on it doesn't like my formatted in OS/2 FAT-12 (aka "DOS") ED disk. I'll have to try formatting it in MS-DOS to be sure. (Yes, it is a "real" ED MB disk.)

Edit: Your PDF seems to imply that it only supports 1440 and 720 KB DOS and 1.4 MB Mac disks. No 800 or 400 KB Mac, and no 2880 KB DOS.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Alrighty.

My NeXTstation Turbo will read:

720 KB DOS, 1440 KB DOS, and 1.4 MB Mac disks.

It will *NOT* read 2880 KB DOS, or 800 KB Mac disks. (I didn't try single-sided DOS or Mac, figured it was rather pointless.)

"DOS" means formatted in PC DOS 7 with "format a: /u /f:" and either 2.88, 1.44 or 720 to force it to format the disk to the proper format. This formats the disk in "FAT12" format, which is the MS-DOS floppy disk standard.

It will format 2880 KB disks for its own use, though. NEXTSTEP also correctly calls it a "2880k" disk, not a "2.88 MB" disk.

For comparison, PC-DOS 7 and OS/2 Warp 3 both format my DS, ED disk to 2931712 bytes (just shy of 2.8 MB.) NEXTSTEP 3.3 says "2.50 MB free". I can't figure out how to determine actual space. The command-line utility "du" doesn't work the same as on OS X.