2 Jan
2005
2 Jan
'05
4:40 a.m.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
I have a small NeXT collection (getting bigger ;-))
and one thing I was
wondering about was the need to maintain originality. For example, I
have one NeXT cube with an interesting pedigree (it has NeXT asset tags
on it, and some interesting bits), but it's a 68030 motherboard... the
low end cube. I have a NeXT Turbo board I can put into the case, but
then the unit wouldn't be "original" any more... does that matter?
Typically, yes. You will have altered the provenance of the machine. If
you appreciate the system from a functional point of view then this
doesn't matter. But if you appreciate the machine from a historical point
of view then it does.
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