[rollei_list] Re: Way OT: NeXT computers

Now that's an accomplishment!

Running DOS or Win 3.x? Or something else (*BSD, Linux, etc)?

Thor

(maybe we should take this off-list....?)

On 28 Nov, 2005, at 18:59, Jerry Lehrer wrote:

Thor,

Pretty impressive jargon there!

My next computer will probably be my last, as I am still
using my first.  It is a IBM 486 (pre-Pentium) with 16 Mb
(or is it 64 Mb) of RAM.

Jerry

Aaron Reece wrote:

On Nov 28, 2005, at 7:49 AM, Thor Legvold wrote:

I got in at the right time - I had purchased an IBM PS/2 only 6 months
before, and was visiting the university research lab where they had
just bought a few NeXT's. They demonstrated the system to me and I was
hooked. I think that was in 1988, Just when the new MB's were
announced (25 and 33MHz, wow!). So I got an old Cube from a "Firesale"
in the US (I phoned the same day I found out about the upgrade deal)
for next to nothing, upgraded to the latest MB and sold the PS/2 for
more than I paid for the Next. I found a second hand NeXT printer
about 6 months later. It was the best system I've ever had. I sold it
to a guy in Japan in 1995 and got an Intel license and kept running
the OS on a PC. I still have it :-). I'll bet the guy in Japan still
has the cube :-). 

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