Hello,
I am looking to purchase a turbo logic board for my cube. I'm new to next collecting. How difficult are these to find these days?
Thanks in advance,
Brian
I think you're more likely to find a whole cube. I doubt many people have just a turbo board lying around.
It took me years to find one I could afford, mostly I had to get comfortable spending the money they command.
Good luck with your search.
What is your current setup?
Thanks for the follow up. From my searching on ebay I figured this would likely be the case. I've had a long running interest with the next platform and decided to take the plunge a few months ago. Rob over at blackhole had a pretty good deal on a complete nextstation color turbo package so I went ahead and purchased it. I upgraded the ram and everything is running great, but it still wasn't a cube, which I'm assuming a lot of people here can understand. I have since found a nextcube with no accessories that I am excited to get up and running. My thought was that if I could find a turbo motherboard I could just transplant my RAM, keyboard, monitor, etc... to the cube. One oddity about this cube is that there is both a built-in cdrom and an MO drive, so I don't have a floppy to boot from. Is it possible to install the OS on the nextstation and then transfer the drive like a modern OS X install?
I create disks and transfer them between machines all the time. You only have to be a little careful with some disks on the older motherboards.
Thanks for the reply. So is it safe to assume you are referring to a hardware compatibility issue? In other words all of the drivers and system software are the same across installs?
Yes. On some of the older machines you can have issues with newer disks... it's a little less dependable. On any 64040 with a more modern ROM, you should have no issues.
Quote from: "barcher174"Rob over at blackhole had a pretty good deal on a complete nextstation color turbo package so I went ahead and purchased it. I upgraded the ram and everything is running great, ... My thought was that if I could find a turbo motherboard I could just transplant my RAM, keyboard, monitor, etc... to the cube. ...
You won't be able to transplant the ram from a non-turbo cube (30 pin) to a turbo cube (72 pin). You should be able to transplant the ram from your turbo color slab though. I did that when I picked up my Turbo Cube and it only had 48MB but my TurboColor had 128MB.
NeXT HW collecting is a sickness, if you get your hands on a Turbo Cube you won't be happy until it's a TurboCube with ND graphics.
Quote from: "jroark"NeXT HW collecting is a sickness, if you get your hands on a Turbo Cube you won't be happy until it's a TurboCube with ND graphics.
But at least the number of different hardware configurations to collect is rather limited, even including the possible PA-RISC and SPARC machines... obtaining a m88k prototype system might be hard, however :)
Quote from: "jroark"
NeXT HW collecting is a sickness, if you get your hands on a Turbo Cube you won't be happy until it's a TurboCube with ND graphics.
Well, at least it appears I'm in good company. :D
Quote from: "barcher174"Quote from: "jroark"
NeXT HW collecting is a sickness, if you get your hands on a Turbo Cube you won't be happy until it's a TurboCube with ND graphics.
Well, at least it appears I'm in good company. :D
Its easy enough to add an internal floppy , I can make you a custom floppy cable with floppy that you would be able to plug in to the motherboard and have it sit in one of the open backplain slots for $30 includes floppy drive and cable. The also had external scsi floppies.
You can boot directly from some cds as well to start an install. I have one non working Turbo Cube motherboard that I suspect has a bad capacitor and a flaky dimension board that are on the list of projects to try and refurbish. Hopefully replacing the caps will get the Turbo cube board to boot, the figure I've heard is they only made 400 turbo cube boards so they just are not that many around but they are cool.
Has any one run the NeXT diagnostics on a ND board as I've never done this just wondering the best way to go about it (?) as I have a working one and non working I thought I would check the differences and may be narrow down which chips need replacing , I'm thinking digikey may have them... I think we have the ND diagnostics somewhere in the archives.
Any help appreciated, I also have some 32mb simms that work with turbo boards for sale. Happy holidays! Best regards Rob Blessin
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Hi there,
I have one, are you still looking?
Yes, PM sent.
Quote from: "jroark"
NeXT HW collecting is a sickness, if you get your hands on a Turbo Cube you won't be happy until it's a TurboCube with ND graphics.
Well, I think it's safe to say you told me so. I just installed my ND graphics card into my Turbo cube today (Special thanks to gtnicol). It was incredibly satisfying to watch everything boot up. Since I started looking, I have now acquired one of each generation of cube and an additional turbo color nextstation. Thank you to everyone here for being so inviting and helpful! It's mind boggling how far ahead of their time these machines truly were.