On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
  My cube
doesn't have a floppy.  I've been considering looking for
another faceplate (for a floppy cube), removing the OD and just haveing
a floppy.  I never use the floppy on my slab, I usually use the zip in
the external housing. 
        I wouldn't be suprised if Rob had a faceplate or two stashed
 away somewhere.  I can see where you might not feel the need to get a
 floppy for it though since it'd be easy enough for you to do the OS
 installs using your slab.  That's really the only thing I use my
 floppy for.  I'm going to take an Apple CD300 case and paint it and
 the faceplate of a NEC CDR-1410A black to match the NeXT.  It'll then
 be close in both style and color to the original NeXT CD-ROM but
 faster. 
 
Can you write NeXT optical disks from another platform?
  I did notice
Rob had the N4000a's.  I'm considering getting on as a
spare.  Rob doesn't like to ship the 21" monitors, but my wife said she
would go on a road trip to Boulder to pick one up.  It's only about
12-13 hours away from Dallas. 
        My 17" color monitor is really heavy...I'd hate to think what
 the 21" NeXT monitors must weigh.  I'm going to drop him a note and
 see how dim the ones that he has are. 
 
Surprisingly, I think the 17" monitors are heavier than the 21".  I have a
21" that isn't too bad to pick up (and I'm a pretty small guy), but is
lighter than my DEC VR297-DA 17" Trinitron.
Peace...  Sridhar