> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> > You too, eh? I got a TurboColor Slab awhile back and put a virgin
> > OpenStep 4.2 install on it. Wish I had the correct cables to connect to
> > the sound boxes and monitor. Really was a purdy machine.
>
> I have two complete units at my desk, including one I still use on a
> regular basis and I ended up giving about 4 away to friends and family. No
> room to store the massive 21" monitors.
>
The monitors are nothing special anymore. At the time they were
pretty high-resolution ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or so), but now you'd just need an
adapter to physically connect to a VGA monitor. That's how I got mine up
and running... soldered up an adapter cable.
> Matter of fact, the one I use at home is the one I used at my desk at work
> until about 2 years ago when I was moved to a smaller desk and no longer
> had room for it. It was NeXTSTeP that made me finally take a look at MacOS
> X. Haven't gone back since.
>
I remember starting out in undergrad at the University of Alaska,
Fairbanks... the CS department had a whole lab full of 'em. Strikingly
polished and beautiful graphics at the time. At the time I was a
macintosh guy. If it hadn't been for Apple taking so long to finish
MacOSX so that my mac was obsolete, I would be using one now. I skipped
the whole Winders BS and went from Mac to Linux. I could be persuaded to
go back with OSX, but the hardware is too expensive for my cheap bastard
self.
> Although, as John (?) pointed out in the start, they're still not worth
> much more than scrap. Especially when you consider the original price
> these things sold at, they've got a long, long way to apprechiate in
> value. On the other hand, between Sun buying 'em wholesale and melting
> them down 10 years ago and snotnosed PC mod kids gutting them and
> polishing the magnesium cases to a mirror shine, the numbers are definatly
> going to continue dwindling.
>
Maybe some of them ended up in the new airplane wheels I just had
to buy for our plane yesterday. Stupid magnesium corrodes WAY too well!
> I need a cube, though.
>
Played with one of those around the same time as getting my slab.
Dreadfully slow, huge, and monochrome. The optical drive was a beast!
-Cory
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