Infancy...

[Jon McCoy]

Yup, I have the NeXT cube with 8MB of RAM, the 320 MB hard drive, the 256 MB magneto-optical drive, the external 2.88 MB 3.5" floppy drive along with the 600dpi laser printer. The mean, flat black powder coated magnesium case was unscratched and the computer was working fine when I boxed it up.

Wow - that was quite a spec... My first Mac, in '95, had a 500Mb HD, 8Mb RAM and 1.44Mb FDD...

Those were some mean specs back in 1989 when most everyone else was rockin' the 640KB to 1MB of RAM and the 20MB hard drives. Something like 15,000 of the cubes went out the door so it isn't like they'll be collectors items any time soon so I am really thinking about retrofitting a new system into it. The problem is I think that the eight-core Mac motherboards are kinda big for the one foot cube and it would be kind of sacrilegious to go with a Windows install even though that is the platform I'm using. Maybe go with Windows and skin it to look like the old NeXT OS:devil:

A couple of years back, a Mac journalist managed to get a few empty cases, to set fire to. The idea, was that magnesium would catch and burn like a school science experiment.

But you can't stuff Windows on a NeXT box?! At least, try Apple Darwin (http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/)(actually based on NeXT OS), and the NeXT-inspired window-manager (http://www.windowmaker.info/). Get an x86 motherboard, and stuff it full of RAM and HDD's. With Darwin, you can turn it into a server then, even hand of rendering tasks.

 

[Jon McCoy]

http://www.simson.net/hacks/cubefire.html

 

[bradvr]

bradvr,

I'll trade you a RENTAL of my lot for a RENTAL of your Red! You could build a snow fort and stay there during Sundance. That's what I do.

-Thor

Thor - I'll give that some thought :cold: In the meantime you are invited anytime you are in Sunny Southern Cal to drop in and play with a Red - "Ripley" or "Conner"!