5 Oct
1997
5 Oct
'97
11:04 a.m.
Also, this looks like it has a hard drive in it, and
it also has some sort
of removable carthridge mass storage device in the front. It looks like
it might fit a CD-ROM carthridge. Is this the case?
It is for an MO (magneto-optical) cartridge. I do not think it is one of
the standards (if there is such a thing for MOs and WORMs).
The NeXT cube certainly is a neat box, and is probably one of the best
looking machines ever made. The inclusion of the MO drive and _no_
harddrive in the first models was a really stupid move on Jobs' part (ever
notice that he does that from time to time?), as it really made the
machines' disk access painfully slow. His original idea was that the MO
drive was to be the entire "world" for the user, so one could carry around
a cartridge and instantly turn any NeXT cube into their own machine.
Obviously, later models did include hard drives.
I forgot
what it was called an all that, but anyway, this lady, as stupid as they
come, wanted $10,000 for this thing. Ok, now I know sometimes people just
don't know what stuff is worth, but I'm sorry, nobody is going to pay
$10,000 for an old computer system, I don't care how big and impressive it
looks, and especially NOT at a swap meet.
People like this learn quickly, after many people walk away, sometimes
laughing or muttering comments under their breath, and finding that at the
end of the day, they still have the machine. Did you go back and check out
the price when everyone was packing it in? It probably ended up being far
less than $10,000.
Then again, some people are so stubborn that they will not read the
market, and will keep the machines forever.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net