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sdinet
Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 184
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: Can anyone help me determine if this is a rare cube board? |
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pentium

Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 1160 Location: Kamloops, BC
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:49 am Post subject: |
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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 |
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sdinet
Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 184
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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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 =) |
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sdinet
Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 184
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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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? |
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neozeed

Joined: 15 Apr 2006 Posts: 716 Location: Hong Kong
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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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> |
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un
Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 93 Location: San Diego, CA
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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sdinet
Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 184
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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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 =) |
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un
Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 93 Location: San Diego, CA
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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First make a backup or two!  |
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pitz
Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 122 Location: Oregon, USA
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 2:34 am Post subject: Save the drivers! |
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Yes, the drivers are definitely worth saving. And sharing
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.
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helf

Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 1097 Location: Alabama, USA
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:21 am Post subject: |
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share! Share emails to. just anonymize them mostly, first. _________________ *INACTIVE* |
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stevebez
Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 63 Location: San Dimas, CA
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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68040

Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Moab
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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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 |
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nex

Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 12
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Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:03 am Post subject: early boards |
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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.
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