-------- Original message --------From: Glen Slick via cctalk<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> www.ebay.com/itm/122383386508
>>
>> still a few hours to go, hovering at $20K
>
>
>And the answer is $32,100.52 (plus $20.95 >shipping)
Ugh.. they always get ya on the shipping.
I don't know if I'd pay $25k for Twiggys but I understand the impulse. ?The problem is, what happens when the novelty wears off? ?I also wonder what the long term value is as generations that experienced these things pass on to those who've never known a day withot a smartphone.
That's a worry for another day though. ?For now.. I'm thinking about grabbing a shovel and going digging for Twiggy gold at a certain dump in Logan.
Sent from my Samsung device
On Mar 14, 2017 5:24 PM, "Fred Cisin via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Ah, out of touch on that, as well!
"But, you can do ANYTHING with Photoshop!" Yeah. right.
Want a stabilization processor?
Most of a ragged Beseler 45, plus a dichroic head that I never got around
to rebuilding and mating?
Movie film daylight developing tank? (motorized back-and-forth reel to
reel 16mm, 35mm, but not large diameter reels)
Fujinon desktop holography camera? (needs new laser tube)
bellows for 35mm? tilt and shift? (I am keeping my
Hama/Kenlock/Spiratone for now, but getting rid of the rest)
Selling my Linhof and Tachihara soon.
Just got through setting up a darkroom in my upstairs bathroom. Did some
developing years ago, but it's nice getting back into it. Looking at doing
some wet plate work next, but I haven't found a cheap source of ether yet.
Kyle
> From: geneb
> I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic. :)
With a steam-shovel... :-)
>> that whole display/windows/menu/mouse thing he copied from Xerox
> Fixed that for ya. :)
Well, technically, as you probably know, the mouse came from Engelbart (well,
his group; I'm not sure who the individual was); and the display, I'm
honestly not sure of.
I know the Knight TV system at the AI Lab was a very early bit-mapped
display, but I don't know where the idea first appeared. (There were of
course influential earlier display systems, such as the one on SAGE, althoug
those were of course all stroke-based systems, given the limited memory of
the period.)
Windows and menus are AFAIK from PARC, but maybe there are antecedents I
don't know of.
> Bah, he was an ego-driven trinket salesman. His trinkets quit being any
> good after the IIgs. :)
Now I'm not sure how serious _you_ are being! :-)
As to the first, there is some truth to it, but like many (all) humans,
he was complex...
Hard to say what else he would have done, could he have gone on; perhaps not
so much (he was getting up there, and people do slow down), but I suspect his
early death was a serious loss (in terms of further advances).
Noel
> From: geneb
> I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic. :)
With a steam-shovel... :-)
>> that whole display/windows/menu/mouse thing he copied from Xerox
> Fixed that for ya. :)
Well, technically, as you probably know, the mouse came from Engelbart (well,
his group; I'm not sure who the individual was); and the display, I'm
honestly not sure of.
I know the Knight TV system at the AI Lab was a very early bit-mapped
display, but I don't know where the idea first appeared. (There were of
course influential earlier display systems, such as the one on SAGE, althoug
those were of course all stroke-based systems, given the limited memory of
the period.)
Windows and menus are AFAIK from PARC, but maybe there are antecedents I
don't know of.
> Bah, he was an ego-driven trinket salesman. His trinkets quit being any
> good after the IIgs. :)
Now I'm not sure how serious _you_ are being! :-)
As to the first, there is some truth to it, but like many (all) humans,
he was complex...
Noel
Hi CHris - We wanted one cleaner! for the exterior view.
also 2 are good.
one can be showed set up
and
another one for people to peek inside.
OK did that with pair of Altairs which due to conditions worked
out well
had pristine looking Altair with replaced power supply and mother
board ... blah right? but left closed for exterior view in display
looks great.
had 2ed one nasty out side and front pane front... not so nice l but
inside it has the correct orig. wimpy power supply and the little
linked together mother board segments with 100 jumper wires holding each
together... this MADE A GREAT INTERIOR display.
Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
In a message dated 3/14/2017 12:08:45 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cmhanson at eschatologist.net writes:
On Mar 12, 2017, at 7:26 PM, Ed via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> OK anyone else have a cube out there that is cosmetically decent?
does
> not need to be internally complete?
>
> Ours is a bit of a beater for the display
What?s wrong with yours that you can?t clean it up for a non-operational
display?
-- Chirs
OK anyone else have a cube out there that is cosmetically decent? does
not need to be internally complete?
Ours is a bit of a beater for the display
thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for smecc
In a message dated 3/12/2017 7:18:42 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
santo.nucifora at gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:13 PM, <COURYHOUSE at aol.com> wrote:
ok can you spare the cube?
Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/)
No. As I noted, I haven't even booted it up yet to try it. I will be
keeping that, one of the mono NeXTstations (the one for parts ) and passing on
a NeXTstation to a fellow collector. I appreciate the interest but it
hasn't even warmed up yet from the cold :)
Santo
I have some NeXT hardware that I'm looking to re-home. Items include:
1 NeXT cube with an unknown expansion card
2 Monochrome monitors
2 NeXTStation "slab" workstations, non-functional
Boxed NeXTStep installation media with manuals (may not be complete)
2 Mice, 3 keyboards, various cables, SCSI drives, odds and ends.
(Picture at
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Sme9n3mG2USjNJa3BaSVFJekk/view>;
the fruit is not included.)
I'm located in Toronto; preference will be given to anyone who is
willing to come here and haul it away. I *may* be willing to ship it
somewhere, but if so, you're paying for it and it can't cause me a lot
of hassle.
Everything is believed to work unless marked otherwise; however, it's
been years since I powered up any of these so I can't promise
anything.
The monitors both worked when I last tried them. One had succumbed to
the dimness problem but the other was still bright, if blurry.
Presumably, you could swap CRTs and have one like-new NeXT monochrome
monitor.
One of the two slabs would get partway through its boot sequence
before hanging so it might be easily fixable. The other one was
stripped for parts before I got it. The Cube worked the last time I
tried it. I did, however, try to add a second drive, which didn't
work. This may have screwed up the SCSI termination.
My preferred contact email is <chris at blit.ca>.
--Chris
--
Chris Reuter http://www.blit.ca
"I used to be able to count to 1023 on my fingers in two minutes, but
then I
got better."
--Eb Oesch, <903f6dfe.0303242039.1f9e65b6 at posting.google.com>
