If ANYONE at all can go to that, I will worship you forever if you get that
Stardent and the 8600 for me... I'll gladly reimburse you, possibly even a
finders fee for your time.. gawd...
Will J
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On May 22, Marion Bates wrote:
> I don't see an ADB port on the unit itself, but the megapixel has
> one. Does that mean that the computer _requires_ the megapixel display
> in order to be useable at all? Or, in the absence of that monitor, can
> it use one of the other ports (which one?) for a keyboard/mouse?
Be careful here...Some NeXTs use ADB and some don't. And yes, you
need the monitor.
> What is the purpose of the "DSP" port? (Two triangles beside it, one
> pointing up and one down, and the connector is 15-pin)
The DSP port didn't have any set purpose. It's a high-speed
synchronous port with a directt path to the machine's DSP chip. It's
been used for many things including high-quality video and audio I/O
and stuff like that. I've seen many home-brew lab experiments using
that port also, both in personal applications as well as in
laboratories. One popular application involved building an interface
to connecting a glove-like input device (PowerGlove or something like
that) to the DSP port and use it for virtual-reality-like
experimentation.
> Which port(s), if any, are LocalTalk-able? I see two mini-din serial
> ports (labeled A and B) and one old-fasioned 9-pin connector with a
> picture of a laserprinter.
An "old-fashioned" 9-pin connector...I got a good chuckle out of
that. ;)
> Last thing -- what are the specs on these, or where can I find that
> out?
Those serial ports use the same pinouts as Macs and Sun IPC/IPX
machines.
-Dave McGuire
On May 22, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> > NeXT monitors are neither expensive nor difficult to find. It's
> >really not worth messing with.
>
> They certainly are heavy beasts though! I bet my color N4001
> weighs 70 pounds. One thing you have to watch out for is dimness
> though.
Very true on both points. Those big color tubes are painful to
move. The mono tubes aren't too bad, though.
-Dave McGuire
Where does one get an AMD LANCE ethernet controller nowadays? Preferably in a
DIL (?) package.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
[E]xcept in the works of Gunnar Asplund, architect of the Stockholm Exhibition
of 1930 and the Stockholm crematorium, Sweden has never contributed much to
the revolutionary developments through which modern architecture made its
initial impact on the world.
J.M. Richards, Modern Architecture
On May 23, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Dave McGuire skrev:
>
> >On May 22, Marion Bates wrote:
> >> I don't see an ADB port on the unit itself, but the megapixel has
> >> one. Does that mean that the computer _requires_ the megapixel display
> >> in order to be useable at all? Or, in the absence of that monitor, can
> >> it use one of the other ports (which one?) for a keyboard/mouse?
>
> > Be careful here...Some NeXTs use ADB and some don't. And yes, you
> >need the monitor.
>
> Can't one just construct a breakout cable? Or does it involve advanced
> electronics?
One can construct a breakout cable, but then you'd have to come up
with a monitor that'd sync to the framebuffer's output.
NeXT monitors are neither expensive nor difficult to find. It's
really not worth messing with.
-Dave McGuire
On May 22, Paul Williams wrote:
> > Well, I haven't decided on a site to host this yet but it sits here > http://www.wzrd.com/homeb/jroth/wirzhome/webwirz.htm temporarily.
>
> > I welcome any ideas on how to improve the site or something you
> > might like to see.
>
> I'd like to see anything at all. It just appears to be a bunch of Flash
> files at the moment, which make it completely impenetrable.
I was about to say the same thing.
-Dave McGuire
On May 22, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> >On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:58:43PM -0400, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> >> > What is the purpose of the "DSP" port? (Two triangles beside it, one
> >> > pointing up and one down, and the connector is 15-pin)
> >>
> >> I'm sure there must have been something that was made to plug into
> >> that port, but I don't know what. It leads to a Digital Signal
> >> Processor.
> >
> >Yeah I think there's a sound box with a speaker, and some audio connectors.
>
> The soundbox plugged into the same cable as the monitor, both
> of which plugged into the monitor output. I've yet to see anything
> that plugged into the DSP port, though I'm sure there must have been
> stuff.
Two products called "Digital Eyes" and "Digital Ears", that allowed
for video and audio digitization. Also the DayDream box, a small box
that basically turned your NeXT into a Mac Quadra if you booted the
right kernel. Those were the only commercial products that I've seen,
though there have been rumors of others.
-Dave McGuire
The DN3000 and DN3500 are *earlier* machines, *not* later... the 425t is an
HP machine, it's technically an HP Apollo 9000/425t..
Will J
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On May 22, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> > I don't see an ADB port on the unit itself, but the megapixel has one.
> > Does that mean that the computer _requires_ the megapixel display in
> > order to be useable at all? Or, in the absence of that monitor, can it
> > use one of the other ports (which one?) for a keyboard/mouse?
>
> Unless this is a Turbo model, even though the connector looks like
> it, it isn't an ADB port.
Being a Turbo NeXT (either color or mono) does NOT mean it's an ADB
NeXT. Indeed, I've a stack of color turbos here that are most
certainly not ADB.
-Dave McGuire
