Well, if ever there was a testament to the build quality of these machines, this is it. After ten years in storage at least, my Cube has just booted first time! *And* I remembered the root password ...
A few things I note - firstly, she's really noisy compared with my modern desktop. What am I hearing? a fan? or a seriously loud hard drive? any tips for making it quieter?
Secondly, she's running V2.1 of the OS - what's the latest version she'll run? I note these people -
http://www.blackholeinc.com/ - will sell me ready to go hard drives with the latest OS on them. Any recommendations as to which one I should buy? Might one of the them be quieter than the current drive? :)
Okay, so now she's running, I wonder what I can do with her - getting her online will be my next goal ...
Cheers all!
Minty.
Noise could be loud older SCSI hard drive more than likely. The fan does put out a notable fan noise much louder than todays systems but you get used to it. <grin>.
If yours has a MO drive in it, mine was bad and sounded like a patrol helicopter above my head as it whired up and down out of control. hehehe.
Enjoy the Cube.
tj
Quote from: "minty"Well, if ever there was a testament to the build quality of these machines, this is it. After ten years in storage at least, my Cube has just booted first time! *And* I remembered the root password ...
A few things I note - firstly, she's really noisy compared with my modern desktop. What am I hearing? a fan? or a seriously loud hard drive? any tips for making it quieter?
Secondly, she's running V2.1 of the OS - what's the latest version she'll run? I note these people - http://www.blackholeinc.com/ - will sell me ready to go hard drives with the latest OS on them. Any recommendations as to which one I should buy? Might one of the them be quieter than the current drive? :)
Okay, so now she's running, I wonder what I can do with her - getting her online will be my next goal ...
Cheers all!
Minty.
I run OpenStep 4.2 quite comfortably on a 68040x25 cube. I used IBM DORS drives (2.1GB) and they're much quieter than an old SCSI (but less interesting :)).
Thanks! Would there be any reason to prefer NeXTStep 3.3 over Openstep 4.2? I guess if you're a purist, it's the last version of the 'pure' NeXT operating system - but is there anything beyond that?
I'm tempted by one of Blackhole's 4GB drives with 4.2 on it - I can always keep my old NS2.1 drive somewhere safe for historical purposes!
The advantage of OpenSTEP 4.2 is the beta javascript support in the Lighthouse Design web browser. Apart from that it's a mix between programming conventions and network compatibility (NetInfo, Samba, etc).