The Next time you find a NeXT Cube for $10.00 call me and I'll take it.
James
Richard Erlacher wrote:
Perhaps, but why would one have wanted one of them back
then? In fact, why
would one want one now?
BTW, when the NEXT boxes first came out, we had a few of them sitting around
for people to look at and play with. I personally was not impressed. They
were EXTREMELY low on gigaflops per picobuck and, aside from the OS, I don't
remember any applications that didn't have the same look and feel as a small
mono-MAC costing ~1/10 as much.
The problem with these machines, as borne out by the market, is that they
weren't what the home user wanted. They weren't what I wanted either. I
recently saw a NEXT cube for sale in a thrift store complete with its original
(Black) laser printer for $10 for the whole shootin'match, and it was running.
AFAIK, nobody bought it. I haven't been back to see whether it's sold yet,
but it's been a couple of weeks. The laser printer had been there a week or
two longer.
Dick