22 Mar
1998
22 Mar
'98
9:54 p.m.
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Marvin wrote:
I just heard about a few Next computers for sale. The
person I talked to
said they were asking $350 and that included the box, monitor, keyboard, and
mouse. Is this a realistic price, low, or high? I think he said there were
5 available minus what he might want. Anyone interested? Condition is
supposed to be very good and when they were set up, he said something about
they couldn't get the cursor to move.
Next made several models. $350 is way high for the slabs, a bit high for
the mono cubes, and a good deal for the color cubes. The original cube is
probably the interesting one from a collector's standpoint, and they seem
to go for under $300. I've resisted the temptation to get one so far.
The software was more innovative than the hardware, and I believe you can
get NextStep (and GnuStep) for intel boxen.
-- Doug