It's been awhile (hi, new stuff, help, apologies, et - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Jul 2000

On 19 Jul 2000, at 17:09, Mark Tapley wrote:

...
  Mike,

 I won a lot at the auction for $15.  Under the
pile was a 1988 NeXT Cube =
(fist year of production after six years of umm, development), matching =
NeXT laser printer, and keyboard, and mouse.  Trading the rest of the =
cart off got me also a 21" radius monster for free that I niavely hoped =
I'd be able to use with the Cube.  
 Cha-ching! Nice score.
   Turning green with envy. I only have a color W-S

...
  I rushed home
with my new MegaPixel, fondiling it along the way, and =
immediately hooked everyting up. Power!  ...Well, it boots.  I get to =
the NeXT rom monitor ver 1 rel 46 and can exercise the machine from =
there.  It doesn't have the floptical in it and a 'b sd'  boot command =
returns a read capacity error on the scsi hard disk.  With the rom =
monitor I can boot to an ethernet attress or scsi target.  Is there =
anyway I can get a disk image of ole NeXTStep on a compatible scsi drive =
and can I use something like an Apple scsi CD-ROM with it?  
 You can use an Apple CD-ROM, my cube works fine with an Apple 300 external.
   Reputedly you can even use an AppleCD 150 

SNIP
...
  Alternately, hit
http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n70038 and
 surf from there; Apple was upgrading for free to NS 3.3 for any existing
 machine. (I'd do this anyway if I were you, just to get a current copy of
 the OS, whether you want to keep the machine original or not.) You'll get a
 CD. It is possible to load from CD, but I think you need either a floppy or
 an optical to start the boot process (but I'm not clear on that). There are
 then patches to put atop that...depends on whether you want original
 NeXTStep or current NeXTStep.
   Apple supplied a couple of floppies with the free upgrade.

...
  Let me know...
 							- Mark
  ciao  larry

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