Filed under: Desktops, Humor, Odds and ends, Steve Jobs, Retro Mac
NeXT collection on eBay
Holy cow that's a lot of stuff-- he's a matching grayscale (!) display and speakers, all the cables, a spare motherboard, all the books and discs, and even the original sticker sheet. Who keeps the sticker sheet?!? The thing even still runs Omniweb (inside NeXTSTEP 3.3 patch 2), and he's got a screenshot of Google up and working.
So how much will it run you? Currently, the auction is at $710 with a business week left to go even higher, but seriously now-- how much is it worth to you to get a little piece (or in this case, a lot of pieces) of non-Apple Jobs?
Thanks, Richard! (who saw it on Boing Boing)
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artifex said 6:51AM on 8-16-2007
Looks like the laser printer is there, too.
If you could get carts for it, still, that would be cool.
The fact he has a working display may be unusual. Most people I know who have NeXT slabs got them second-hand, and they're missing the displays, so have to short two wires in order to get the machine to run headless (power button, etc., runs through the monitor cable).
Just a note for tinkerers who think they can install other OSes: lotsa luck. I was able to get NetBSD to run on my mono slab, but only by booting off a boot server; there's some weird way the SCSI hangs off the bus that nobody's been able to work out totally. At least that was true when I dumped mine in the closet a couple years ago. :) (What, these are worth money? Maybe it'll come back out soon.)
P.S. Mike, I have the sticker sheets from all the Apple products I've bought (macs and ipods), and they're all unused. Why wouldn't they be kept with the documentation?
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Michael said 7:09AM on 8-16-2007
"... the motherload for any NeXT fan ..."
It's L.O.D.E.
The words you're looking for are "mother lode" - although I can't see how "mother lode" fits as a metaphor here, since it refers to the source:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/mother+lode
The source, upstream from odd occurrences like this, would, presumably, be the NeXT factory.
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ian said 8:25AM on 8-16-2007
That's not such a great deal. It's not a turbo cube, it doesn't have much memory, and it's pretty scratched up. It is nice that it comes with a monitor, but not $700 nice. (That's the current bid I just saw.)
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Billy K said 9:28AM on 8-16-2007
Steve sure does like his stickers.
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Jacob Folkman said 9:44AM on 8-16-2007
What a waste of money.
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Keith Sheehan said 10:03AM on 8-16-2007
Wait a minute! A Steve Jobs-endorsed mouse that has two individual buttons that you don't have to be a contortionist to use? Blasphemous!
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Josh said 10:21AM on 8-16-2007
I think I'm happier with the $700
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Sduck said 10:59AM on 8-16-2007
Uh-oh - I'm being tempted. I've got a complete turbo color slab setup, in perfect condition, working perfectly, with all that stuff except the printer. Even with an adb mouse - much cooler than that non-adb. Didn't think it was worth all of 700$ - usually they go for a bit less, and shipping is huge. The monitors weigh a ton, and have to be packed extra well. I don't know - it's not really worth anything as a working computer except for dubious cool factor. It's kind of fun poking around in nextstep and seeing all the stuff that lasted into os x. The mac finder in column mode is right out of nextstep, and the home folder icon is the same.
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Will said 5:28PM on 8-16-2007
No Next Dimension board. Meh.
I have all of that stuff with my Mono slab. Boy howdy would I love to get 700 bucks for it!
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artifex said 8:05PM on 8-16-2007
But Will, the cube gets you the floptical! :)
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