Wanted: stand for NeXT monitor - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 May 2015

we have one of the  NeXT   cube  looking  computer, a monitor and a NeXT  
laser printer.  looking   for  an  archive stash of advertising lit. and  
graphics   we  can use  to build  a display around this hardware.   
Suggestions?  Thanks  Ed Sharpe  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  

In a message dated 5/29/2015 8:23:20 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
aperry at snowmoose.com writes:

I am  running OPENSTEP on an Axil 320 (SPARCstation 20 clone) with 416M 
of  memory and a 60MHz SuperSPARC processor (sadly OPENSTEP (at least the  
version that I have) only supports one of the two processors in the  
system). The system runs OPENSTEP very well.

alan

On 5/28/15  8:20 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
...
  It was always my experience ... I think  NeXTstep had
a reputation of  being
...
  a little balky on the proprietary  NeXT hardware. I am
fortunate to have a
 decent swath of their product  line ... an original '030 Cube, a Color  slab
...
  and a Turbo Color slab  and even on the Turbo slab
with 32 megs RAM and a
 7200 RPM drive, NS  3.3 gets laggy.

 Slow as it is, the entire package has  certainly got some class and it's
 something to revel at, of  course.

 Can you even run Openstep on the NeXT proprietary  hardware? The  performance
...
  must be awful... I halfway thought NS 3.3  was the
last revision they  would
...
  run ... 3.3 should be pretty common  in the wild
because NeXT was giving  it
...
  away for free with a valid NeXT  serial number about
15 years ago as a Y2K
 mitigation strategy :O I run  3.3 on all my NeXTs, even the '030 Cube.

 If you really want to  see NeXTstep 3.3 fly, people say it's great on the  HP
...
  9000/712  :O

 Best,

 Sean

 On Wed,  May 27, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Brian Archer <archer174 at gmail.com>  
wrote:
...

> I think you'll find the best upgrade for it besides  the RAM is a faster
> hard drive. Also I wouldn't go higher than  nextstep 3.3. Blackhole (
> http://www.blackholeinc.com) is your  best bet for the stand. If this is
> the
> one from eBay,  would you mind sharing more details/pics of that next  logo
...
    motherboard
box? I've never seen one before.

  Thanks,
 Brian Archer

 On Tue, May 26, 2015  at 12:42 AM, Steven Stengel <tosteve at yahoo.com>
  wrote:

> Just acquired a NeXT 68040 cube computer.  It's way cool, but the
> responsiveness is unimpressive - I'd  call it pokey.
>
> All 16 RAM slots are full for  16MB, but sixteen 4MB RAM sticks may help
> the  speed.
>
> It has an internal HD, as well as the  magneto-optical drive.
>
> One things it's missing  is the monitor stand - does anyone have a spare
> stand for a  NeXT N4000A monochrome monitor?
>
>  Thanks-
>  Steve.
>
>
>
> 