TCF goodies

I went to the Trenton Computer Fest today. I didn't get over to the MARCH table, sorry. I did see John Allain however, but down the end of a row, and by the time I got down there to say hi, I lost track of him. Back to the point. I picked up a pair of NeXT slabs for $2 each. I think even Sellam would agree that is a good price ;-) One is a Turbo the other is a Color. No idea yet was is in them other than visually, there is a floppy drive and a hard drive. I've never played with a NeXT, and at that price, I wasn't going to ask many questions. The Turbo has a DA-15 connector that looks like a Mac RGB connector. Is it compatible with Mac monitors? The Color has a connector that I don't know what it is called, but looks like a Sun monitor connector. Is it compatible with those monitors? I'm crossing my fingers for a yes on both counts since I have both available to me already. And to verify, the keyboard/mouse uses ADB correct? These slabs were just the computer, nothing else. (although I did find a guy that had a NeXT mouse, but he was holding it to sell with his MacTV and wouldn't part with it. I considered getting the MacTV, but since I got one from John a while back, I decided against spending the $50 since it didn't have any docs, software, cables, keyboard, remote, or the correct mouse). The only other thing I picked up that might be of interest to this group is some kind of video conferencing terminal. I don't know anything about it at all yet, I wasn't actually interested in it, but the guy said if I took it away right then, I could have it for free, so I took it simply because it looked cool. Over all, I was a little disappointed this year in the items available. It is only the 2nd time I've gone, the first was two years ago, and I remembered there being far more vendors with a better selection. This year was a bunch of so-so priced used PCs, TONS of old laptops, and some over priced used Macs. I was surprised I couldn't find a decent deal on a rack mount PC server, or much in the way of RJ-45 patch panels (I needed two 72 port ones, I was able to find two 48 port ones at an ok price, and that was about it). Its possible that some of the vendors just weren't there yet or fully unpacked, I was there from about 10 am to 12:30. I also didn't go indoors anywhere, so I may have missed a bunch of other dealers (I had limited time today as I had to be back home by 2, and it takes about 1.5 hours on the drive). Anyone else get anything of interest? Oh, and Hi John, since I didn't get to say it to you today. :-) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>