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bigsadhu Junior Member Cayman Island 462 Posts	Posted - 13 May 2002 : 02:54:57 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2024042145 The black fetish lives again! Cool link to .wav file of Jobs voice too. Cheers! CC Current score: 1 eMate 300 1 Apple //e 2 LC IIs 1 LC III 4 LC 475s 6 Quadra 605s 1 Quadra 700 1 Quadra 800 1 PB 520c 2 Powermac 6100s 1 PowerComputing Powerbase 240 1 Wallstreet and a partridge in a pear tree Edited by - bigsadhu on 13 May 2002 03:08:08
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 13 May 2002 : 03:06:43 150 lbs to ship... whoah. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City
TiMacLover Senior Member USA 1282 Posts	Posted - 13 May 2002 : 06:32:57 Heck I am in California I could just pick up! Well I bid $25 and I know I'll be out bid, but atleast I can say I bid on da phatest cube around Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops 68k Hacks General Macs Liberated:18 ENTER THROUGH THE GATES
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 13 May 2002 : 06:39:50 quote: Heck I am in California I could just pick up! Well I bid $25 and I know I'll be out bid, but atleast I can say I bid on da phatest cube around get a load of that turtlenecked idiot in a freakin' suit and tie! whatta dweeb! <rolleyes> HAR!™ jt ™. .
SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 13 May 2002 : 09:43:06 Drooooooooolll Man oh man, now you guys know what to get me for christmas! SpaceBoy <also hoping Santa brings a dual-processor BeBox tower...> AppleBASIC FOREVER! As of 4/8/02: TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PB 1400/133, "KayPro II" PB 180/33, "Osbourne 1" PMac 7100/G3-266, "DEC Rainbow" and "Altair 8800" Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" iMac Rev.A/333mHz, "Deep Blue" Newton 120, "PADD"
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 13 May 2002 : 18:02:06 He even has a mullet. Frickin' 80s - good music, bad tastes. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City
scchicago Full Member USA 936 Posts	Posted - 13 May 2002 : 18:42:17 Wow! the bid is up to almost $100 now. _________________ HotLineServer: scchicago.dynodns.net Website: http://scchicago.dynodns.net MyForumOnDelphi: http://forums.delphiforums.com/scchicago NOTE:HL AND HTTP SERVER ARE ONLY AVAILIBLE WHEN I'M ONLINE AIM:scchicago87 Yahoo!IM:scchicago
Rexzilla Junior Member 132 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 01:35:09 I remember all the hype of the "Next". Steve Jobs came down from the mount to give us the latest iteration of the "Ten Commandments". When I come to think of it he is still doing that. The "Next" was an aberation of computer history which was repeated with "The Cube" Apple turned out years later after Jobs return. The "Next" was suppose to be the only "computer appliance" that a busy executive needed. Both are examples of style over function.
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 05:19:52 quote: Both are examples of style over function. what hoosiersaurus said! jt ™. .
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 13:20:07 The NeXT cube was not style over function! The G4 cube sucked. Really. It had mediocre hardware and little or no expansion. The NeXT Cube was not the same way. It had a 68030 or 68040 plus a Motorola DSP built in. It ran NeXTSTEP, the OS that's now called Mac OS X. It rendered PostScript natively; in fact, the NeXT laser printer had no RAM! The NeXTSTEP GUI is in my humble opinion among the best ever. The NeXT cube had expansion slots; in fact, one could buy a NeXTdimension board and run a dual-headed color cube! The NeXT cube is what the G4 cube should have been: an expandable UNIX workstation with top-of-the-line performance and a reasonable price. NeXT black hardware sells at such high prices for two reasons: usefulness and collectibility. NeXT hardware was rare and ahead of its time, making it a collector's dream. However, NeXT hardware is still useful. It can serve web pages with Apache, do web browsing with OmniWeb, operate as an AppleTalk server with CAPer, and do excellent graphic design with the Lighthouse apps, FrameMaker, and Create. Programming for NeXT is as easy as Cocoa for OS X. No, the NeXT was not an aberration in computer history. It was a milestone and a look ahead. It was indeed the next step. Macs Liberated: SE (with SuperDrive), IIsi, Quadra 700, 6100, PB 5300, PowerMac 5400 PCs liberated from Windows: 3
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 14:03:48 quote: No, the NeXT was not an aberration in computer history. It was a milestone and a look ahead. It was indeed the next step. that too, but it was the development environment that is its real legacy, the hardware edge was gone quickly. i got the biggest kick out of don lancasters take on the 400 dpi (?) bundled laser printer, you take a laserwriter, pull most of the intelligence out of it and saddle the cpu with the additional load. not all of it was forward looking, unless you want to count all the new windows inkjets that are too stupid to interface with a parallel converter! . . . and what's he got against floppies? . . . mulletneckeddork! jt ™. .
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 15:27:51 The reason for the NeXT laser was cost. Plus, what came out on the printer was exactly what you saw on the screen. Kind of like what OS X does with Preview.app. Floppy disks are evil. I'd much rather use a CD or a Zip disk than floppies any day. Floppy disks are slow, of low capacity, and destined to fail. I've lost many documents and programs to corrupt floppies. Macs Liberated: SE (with SuperDrive), IIsi, Quadra 700, 6100, PB 5300, PowerMac 5400 PCs liberated from Windows: 3
Rexzilla Junior Member 132 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 17:34:05 Well I disagree about the " Next", Oldmac. This unit cost around 10k out the door with the peripherials in the early 90's. I would not spend 10k for dual G4 now, why would anyone spend that much on a 68030 processor? The "Next" was gone in about two years, an abysmal Jobs failure. I applaud the innovation for the time like WORM drive and I am not discounting the operating system. But as a business system which was it's target audience, it was nothing but an albatross. I know it is a highly collectable item, I dabble in all things old...must be because of my age :)
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 15 May 2002 : 04:58:34 quote: The "Next" was gone in about two years. No. It was first sold in 1988 and production ended in 1993. quote: This unit cost around 10k out the door with the peripherials in the early 90's. Still an excellent price. To quote Low End Mac on the NeXTdimension, "At just $17,615, it offered Quadra 900 speed at about the same price as a Mac IIfx 8/160 with a 12" b&w screen." All hardware was expensive then. quote: But as a business system which was it's target audience, it was nothing but an albatross. That's true. However, NeXT eventually found its niche in education and science, and bundled Mathematica with the education version of NeXTSTEP. Macs Liberated: SE (with SuperDrive), IIsi, Quadra 700, 6100, PB 5300, PowerMac 5400 PCs liberated from Windows: 3

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