NeXT Computers

sdinet · Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 184

pentium · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 1159 Location: Kamloops, BC

Looks like a moderately early make of the 030 board.
Never seen it in that color before though.
_________________

-NeXT 68040 Cube with NS 3.3 and 64Mb ram

sdinet · Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 184

yeah I pulled it out and was like, weird YELLOW... Never seen that before! Anyway, wondering if it has some history to the YELLOW color or some special meaning =)

sdinet · Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 184

So I booted up this cube and WOW it was a BETA cube at a university and they used it to develop printer software and drivers for NeXT! It has LOADS of software installed, dozens of user accounts and TONZ of emails, including MANY MANY emails from NeXT employees. Would it be in POOR taste to share the emails from NeXT employees in the archive section? I assume that would violate privacy?

neozeed · Joined: 15 Apr 2006 Posts: 716 Location: Hong Kong

I know I'd make a copy off of the cube, incase the disk decides to die....

You can always use sed to remove pronouns...
_________________
# include <wittycomment.h>

un · Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 93 Location: San Diego, CA

Posting personal emails would definitely be an invasion of privacy, morally (IMO) if not legally. Company related emails, maybe not if you anonymised them before publishing.

sdinet · Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 184

yes I completely agree, just wish there was a way to share the great stuff I found from a NeXT archival perspective.... Also, there is alot of custom made NeXT software and drivers on here (I have the source code), I could literally spend thousands of hours trying to piece it all together... What to do =)

un · Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 93 Location: San Diego, CA

First make a backup or two! Very Happy

pitz · Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 122 Location: Oregon, USA

Yes, the drivers are definitely worth saving. And sharing Smile

Though you can only go so far with m68k hardware (except maybe through some SCSI or DSP core drivers), it would be nice to follow some source code to write drivers for i386 devices, or even to write "virtual" drivers when NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP runs as a guest OS of VMs.

/pitz

helf · Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 1097 Location: Alabama, USA

share!

Share emails to. just anonymize them mostly, first.
_________________
*INACTIVE*

stevebez · Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 63 Location: San Dimas, CA

As I understand it yellow circut boards are not as strong as green ones. This comes from general electronics knowledge and is not NeXT specific. Just to be safe I would be extra careful with this one.

68040 · Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Moab

The early 030 boards were yellow (1988) and the later 030 boards were green (1989). The yellow boards I own have v1.0 ROMs and the green ones have v1.2 ROMs.
_________________
68040

nex · Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 12

The earliest board (AAG0000832) that I have was from a university as well, so perhaps that falls in line with Steve Jobs trying to get schools hooked on his wacky new cube in early '89.