6 Feb
2006
6 Feb
'06
9:53 p.m.
nospam212-cctalk at yahoo.com wrote:
Today I received a NeXTstation TurboColor, with full
doc, original boxes, NeXTstep 3.0-3.3, 17" Color
Monitor, Laser Printer, Modem, set of NextWorld
magazines, various books and doc and tons of software.
It was shipped down from Canada and arrived in my
office where a co-worker looked at it a moment, then
looked at me and asked, "so when was that state of the
art?" :)
Now to catalog, setup and add to my site.
David Williams
http://www.trailingedge.com
My TurboColor was my first NeXT and is still one of my favorites. It
never ceases to amaze me the number of so called IT workers who have
never heard of NeXT. It's like if it's not M$, then it surely couldn't
have been relevant to computing history.
An off topic comment, I was assisting a customer's site today who
happens to be running a version of our medical software that is serveral
versions behind the upgrade curve. It so happens that the particular
version they use must run on a Win9x platform. The motherboard in their
P2 PeeCee died and was replaced by Geek Squad over the weekend with a
new board and cpu. The so called "technician" they sent out had never
seen a Win95 machine and had no clue how to install the drivers for
hardware that plug-n-pray didn't detect. If it wasn't XP, he was
totally lost. A glimpse of the future of computing!
James
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http://www.blackcube.org
The Texas State Home for Orphaned and Wayward Computers