Since I have some ancient white hardware around, so I decided to build a new system.
Foxconn KM400M01
Athlon XP 3200+
1GB DDR-400 (512MB usable)
60 GB WDC IDE
I have several PCI video cards that I'm experimenting. I get Stealth 3D 2000, ATI Rage XL and Stealth III S520. The first two should have drivers. Not sure if the VBE driver works for the newer Stealth III.
I can take the Adaptec 2940 from other box if I need. Also the 3Com Etherlink XL.
Will also try to get WinXP dual boot. Like to create a shared partition. So I can copy files.
The main purpose is to preserve some of the old NeXT emails.
The above white box works fine. I was playing with several video cards and got black screens. Then the system got corrupted and "fsck" could not fix it. So I had to re-install the system a couple of times. That is a big bear.
I also revive a Deltis 230MO drive with a box of 128MB OD disks. The drive is recognized by both NS/OS and Windows system.
I'm going to have two HDs with OS4.2 and Windows XP. I tried to have a dual boot. But it takes too much time to set up the dual boot. I do not recall how I did the last time. I even had tri-boot and managed by OS2 boot manager. Just too time consuming now.
I'm pretty much set with the two white boxes I just re-built. Basically just replaced the old HDs with some newer ones. I did not want to build multi-boot machines since it is too much trouble. So I just swap the HD in case I need to boot into Win XP and Win 7 to restore some old files.
I still have 4 other old machines that can be built for white box. Pentium II, Pentium III, Athlon XP 2600+ and an Asus NRL-LS server with P-4. I almost recycled them.
I still get a lot of files from 20+ years ago. I do not know if there is anyway to convert the NeXT mailbox to other format. I know we can read them as plain text file.
QuoteI do not know if there is anyway to convert the NeXT mailbox to other format. I know we can read them as plain text file.
Most of the NeXTMailbox format is more or less known.If I'm not wrong there is also some basic utilities available.
But NeXTmail is not only text, it can also be rich text with files attached...
I know older versions of Mail.app on the Mac could read in next mailboxes and even read NeXTmail. The latest version no longer shows next mail though, but I think it still can read MIME and of course plaintext.