On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:16:03PM -0400, David M. wrote:
> Hello all, just joined the mailing list. Honestly, I'm using it to try
> and save my NeXT station from being recycled (read: crushed) from spring
> cleaning around the house. I have a turbo color workstation with color
> monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speaker wedge for free to the first person
> to pick it up in Lakeland. There might be some value to this system to
> someone but I'm in a giving mood. I can't vouch that it will still boot
> but it worked just fine a few years ago when I was using it for local YP
> testing in the house (I had a Sun 386i also at the time, unfortunately,
> that one has been trashed). Has NeXTStep installed. Please don't ask me
> about the HD or memory size, I do not remember but it's very small
> compared to today's standards.
>
> Anyway, I am a fellow linux user of 10+ years. Started out on slackware
> for personal linux use (don't remember much from those days), VMS and
> NeXT at college, dabbled in SunOS for i386 but hated it. I went through
> my redhat and fedora1-6 stages but I'm a recent convert to Xubuntu for
> home use (I lean toward CentOS/Redhat for servers still tho). So, if
> you're interested, just let me know. I'll throw in a 21" viewsonic CRT
> to make it worth the gas.
Damn -- I've wanted one of those for years. Too bad I'm more than a
thousand miles away.
-- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."
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