11 Nov
2001
11 Nov
'01
2:08 p.m.
Good to someone making progress, restoring some black hardware to a
useful configuration. I enjoy my NeXT slab and cube. Still some of my
favorite machines. A lot of sites do look funny on Omniweb. I guess it
might be the html to rtf translation. Some things just don't translate
very well. Frank's Caper package seems to work well and Samba is
readily available if your network is Wintel based. I'm eagerly
awaiting the arrival of my N4005 21" monitor to complete my Dimension
cube. I just got a set of ink carts for the color printer and have
almost unstopped all of the print heads. If you don't have your printer
parts yet, give Randy at Turbo a shout. He takes Paypal and his
wider-than-stock printer gear seems to be the best long term solution.
I need to get a two drive SCSI cable from him as I have a second 2.1 gb
drive to install in my cube and I need a printer repair kit for my spare
laser. I've started buying spares before they disappear totally, such
as floppy drives, spare mice and keyboards, monitors and power
supplies. I plan on keeping my black hardware up and running for a long
time!
Jeff Hellige wrote:
Well, tonight I made another small step with my
NeXT systems. I
have both my Cube and my slab at home now and was working on the slab
since I had gotten so much further with the Cube while it was in my
office. Tonight on the slab I got both DHCP and POP3 email retrieval
working while connected to my G3 using Surfdoubler. I forgot at first
that I needed to modify Popover in order to send mail, though I know
it works because I've already done it on the Cube. Web sites don't
look quite right when viewed using Omniweb, but hey it works! I also
have Caper running on both systems so they can be connected to
Appletalk networks. Now all I have to do is finally get around to
taking the NeXT laserprinter apart and replacing it's main feed roller
and extraction gear.
Jeff