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What's NeXT for Me?

68kMLA Peripherals 15 posts Apr 14, 2008 to Apr 18, 2008

#1 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 - 23:55 68kMLA

Either tomorrow or Wednesday, I will be buying my first NeXT for the cool price of $25. It comes with the monitor and printer.

I'm not sure what kind it is but it's a NeXT nonetheless.

I also will be getting some more software some time this week. A guy dug up FIVE Print Shops for me. Amazing! I hear there's also a few Carmen Sandiegos and Wagon Train 1848 in the lot...but sadly no MS Works 3.

That brings the Print Shop total to 11. I honestly need to take a picture of the disks, it looks like a Broderbund factory outlet.

#2 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 - 00:01 68kMLA

$25, that's a steal, regardless of model!

I paid $150 for a NeXTstation turbo with monitor, printer, and CD-ROM drive.

#3 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 - 07:43 68kMLA

That stuff is so hard to find in the UK I've resorted to running NeXTSTEP on a Sun SPARCstation 20 instead. It has it's perks (like 24-bit video and 448MB of RAM, oh an a 85MHz RISC CPU) but I guess it's not quite the same...

#4 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 - 08:28 68kMLA

I'd kill for Intel NextStep images...

hint, hint

#5 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 - 15:23 68kMLA

A hinthint that will fall upon ears deaf to the idea of sharing/archiving older software on the Internet.

Anyway, congrats on the NeXT! It's always exciting to try out a new platform, and with luck you can get everything going in a moderately usable way!

#6 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 - 15:38 68kMLA

If you need help and advice then http://www.nextcomputers.org/ has a good forum for NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody users.

#7 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 - 20:30 68kMLA

pics or it didn't happen.

#8 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 - 07:44 68kMLA

http://www.68kmac.org/images/pics/NeXT/nextstep-ss20.png

#9 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 - 17:40 68kMLA

Well, I just got the system...it says NeXT Station on it, it's a really flat and wide box. The date on the back of the monitor is 1991. There's also some sort of laser printer with it.

Then there was the software haul...all Macintosh versions...

-5 Print Shops

-2 Where in Time is Carmens

-1 Carmen USA

-2 Carmen Worlds

-1 Wagon Train 1848

-1 After Dark

-1 Calendar Maker

Yes, I now have 11 Print Shops....

#10 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 - 20:34 68kMLA

That would make it a 'Slab' as opposed to a 'Cube' then

Did it come with Keyboard/Mouse too? If not, it'll be a bit of a pain to find them if it didn't and its not an ADB model...

Does it have any other names on it, like 'turbo'?

#11 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 - 22:39 68kMLA

It's got the keyboard and mouse but no monitor cable...

Didn't see Turbo on it but I'll look again...it's still in my trunk.

#12 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 - 00:44 68kMLA

Sounds like a standard NeXtstation

see http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/Hardware/nextstation.pdf

The monitor cable may be a bit of a nightmare to get hold of though

#13 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 - 01:29 68kMLA

A NeXTStation turbo color was sold on ebay recently.

http://cgi.ebay.com/NeXTstation-TurboColor-NextSTEP-3-2-1-2Gb-32MB-Next-NR_W0QQitemZ120243606334

#14 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 - 01:05 68kMLA

I'd kill for Intel NextStep images...
hint, hint

You should check your pm

hint, hint.

#15 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 - 03:40 68kMLA

Gotcha wink wink

moving PM's to outside of this forum and onto gmail....