[rollei_list] Re: Way OT: NeXT computers
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:03:28 -0800
Thor,
Windows 3.1 is my operating system. It works very well.
Jerry
Thor Legvold wrote:
> 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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