NeXT cubes or slabs.

Agreed. That is a _very_ good deal. The big difference between the cube and the slab is that the cube incorporates a DSP on the motherboard while the slab does not. The cube also has a backplane which supports up to four cards, one of which is the main CPU board. In the case of the color cube, another is used for the 32 bit color card (assuming you're getting a NeXT dimension board with the cube). With a minor hack one can even install multiple cpu cards into the cube chassis, network them together, and then boot each card as a separate host. Pretty slick. see: http://www.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~heller/NeXT/NeXT.html For folks wondering why I haven't been involved with the list much lately... I've been dealing with a family illness and just don't have much time. I do read messages every now and then, so I haven't forgotten about classiccmp, I just have pressing responsibilities. BTW: Russ! I just got the C64 you shipped me months back working. I found a C64 Programmers reference with schematics at the MIT flea which helped out tremendously. Pretty Cool! --jmg