7 Jul
2006
7 Jul
'06
10:07 a.m.
James Rice wrote:
I was at least expecting some sort of disaster about the 1.2GB hard disk that
I dropped in there - having googled a bit it seems people had a hell of a job
adding drives to the system post-install and crafting the appropriate geometry
entries. Appears that there isn't a problem at OS install-time though; it
figured it all out for me happily (and has given me usable space about 40
blocks shy of the full disk capacity).
I'd love to find a Cube. Or even a colour slab. But considering I've been
searching for *any* NeXT for the last 3 years, I'm happy :-)
That display's probably the most clear and crisp I've ever used on any system
(no doubt it benefits from being mono - but it even beats all the mono systems
I've ever used hands-down)
cheers
Jules
I love it when
hardware and software just works like that - such a rare
thing!
That was one of the beautiful things about NeXT's. Usually everything
just works. All Turbo chip set models had 72 pin sockets. There
were a few
non-Turbo (25mhz) machines that had the Turbo chip set and 72 pin
sockets but ran at 25mhz. I have one of those odd ball machines. I
have heard of a slab with a Turbo chip set and 30 pin SIMM sockets but
have not seen one. That may be what you have. Interesting.
Hmm, well this machine is an '040 @ 25MHz, but with the 30 pin sockets. I'm
not sure if that's a Turbo or not? I always thought the Turbo was exclusively
an '040 @ 33MHz - but quite possibly it's *any* '040 slab regardless of
speed?
Bloody nice
machines, though.
Agreed. My first love is still the Cube, but the slabs are very nice.