i'm seeing prices all over the board for the nextstations and really am not sure how to put a value on a complete turbo color station. w/monitor, keyboard, sound. i saw an auction with just the computer that sold a few weeks ago for 45.00. and then a full system for around 300.00 later.
i guess what im asking is what i should budget for one. i'm thinking it is a good entry level system that i'd be happy with. btw, how big a factor is installed ram in all of this?
so:
turbo color, monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound.
any thoughts greaty appreciated!
:D
NeXT stuff seems to be hot/trendy at the moment. From the selling prices on ebay over the last few months, you are probably looking in the $300 range easy. You are looking for a color turbo, which is a very desirable item, at least in my book. I have been collecting pieces here and there in an attempt to put one together for a few months now, and do not have a complete system yet. I started with a couple of non-turbo mono-slabs, then a few non-adb keyboards, a color slab motherboard, a partially functioning non-adb mouse, and finally a non-adb soundbox and color "Y" cable (thanks Ron :)). I have no NeXT monitor, but as soon as my vga gender changer arrives I should have everything I need to at least try to get something to boot. If I had it all to do again, I probably would grab a complete system earlier, but what would be the fun in that ;).
Chef
yeah, ~$300 is going to be the range. RAM isnt much of an issue. 32mb will be fine for playing around in and you can get 32mb 72pin edo sticks off ebay for dirt. I even have some spare 32mb sticks i think I could sell ;)
I paid 250 over a year ago for a turbo mono with 16mb of ram, 1gb hdd with ns3.3, keyboard/mouse and 17" monitor.
I just snagged (last week) a Turbo Mono Slab w/ 32 MB RAM, I gig HD, keyboard, mouse, monitor for 78 bucks plus shipping off ebay.
I thought that was an exceptionally good deal at $78, but who knows. I'm very happy with it, though.
jeez, that was cheap! lucky :P
Quote from: "helf"jeez, that was cheap! lucky :P
yea..i've been thinking that it seems to be a very strange market. a non turbo station with no monitor sold for $85.00 within the past day or so. and then there was that 040 cube system last week that barely brought $200.00. now there's another mono station on ebay with a buy it now of $369.00. :roll:
i've also noticed that some of the descriptions recently are lacking a lot of technical details while including lots of "rare", "historical", etc. it's as if people just uncovered these and are expecting to sell them for a ton of money...probably because they saw a couple high-dollar cube systems.
who knows. hopefully though, the higher prices will bring more stuff onto the market. stuff that otherwise might have been scrapped or jsut sat in storage.
Quote from: "weps"i've also noticed that some of the descriptions recently are lacking a lot of technical details while including lots of "rare", "historical", etc. it's as if people just uncovered these and are expecting to sell them for a ton of money...probably because they saw a few cube systems bringing big money.
who knows.
A friend of mine who sells a lot of non computer stuff on ebay said the same thing. People will watch for items that go for unusually high prices, check inventory or find them off ebay, and put them up for auction to capitalize on the "demand". He also said don't be surprised if this stuff appears back in a few months for a lot less, if the perceived demand dies down. Kind of like speculators in the classic car market buying up any 66-68 mustang they can find, due to the "demand" for "Elanor's" and "continuation Shelby's" from outfits like Unique Performance. Hell if the price is right I might even sell the '66 I have in my garage, and it has been with me for almost 20 years.
Chef
woah woah woah. you have a '66?
can i see... a picture?
lucky dog ;D
I have a '79 triumph spitfire. I would LOOOOVE a 66 mustang.
p.s.
sorry for the thread hijacking
Quote from: "helf"woah woah woah. you have a '66?
can i see... a picture?
yea! i'd like to see one too.
oddly enough i used some of the money from the sale of my 66 bronco to buy my first next machines. at one point, i pictured using it to tow a 66 mustang around. ...that idea never quite got off the ground though. :?
edit for poor grammar...and then just to test out the edit counter. :P
Just grabbed a TurboColor slab off of ebay for $50. It had a buy it now of $175, and I shot him a best offer for $50, and he accepted. Looks a little dirty, and was unable to test it since he only had slab, so we will see what happens.
Chef
sounds like a deal!
hopefully everything works out with this seller. how did he have it listed? i checked a couple times today, but nothing came up.
Quote from: "weps"sounds like a deal!
hopefully everything works out with this seller. how did he have it listed? i checked a couple times today, but nothing came up.
he had it listed as "next station turbo", all separated out and such. The auction number is 220042344021 if you are interested in looking.
Chef
I am the guy that bought the $85 Nextstation, and this is my first post :D although I have been lurking here for a couple of weeks. I have a similar story to you all, after buying my first Nextworld magazine all I could think of was which organ to sell to buy one (Australian dollar is lower that US, which made it more expensive).
It will take a while for me to receive it as I live in Australia, and I can't wait. However it is a mono and I just found out there is a strange 19 pin connector. Any sugestions on how to connect it to a standard Sun monitor?
Thanks
Well, from what I can tell so far, your chances of hooking it up to a normal Sun monitor are slim to nil.
I had to break down and buy an actual Next monitor and make my own 19-pin cable for my monostation...
Darn, I was hoping you wern't going to say that. So can I buy a 19pin connector and make an adapter? Or do I have to pay for a monitor to be shipped to Australia (expensive)? How about changing the motherboard?
Thanks
Yeah, your best bet is to find yourself a ColorStation motherboard. They do connect to Sun monitors with the 3w13 connector (at least as far as I know since I don't actually own one :) ).
MB transplant is what I did with one of my monostations, and I use an Acer 17in flat panel with it. The biggest problem is in order to do this, you will need the color monitor "Y" cable and a soundbox with matching keyboard and mouse. You can check out this other thread on the board for more info on the adapters and cables that you need to do this.
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=89Chef
Talking about "fair price", a monostation system just popped up on ebay today, with a starting bid of $299. Once again it is a complete/working system with NS installed on it. It is a 2 day auction, and it will be interesting to see if it gets any takers.
Chef
Quote from: "nextchef"Talking about "fair price", a monostation system just popped up on ebay today, with a starting bid of $299. Once again it is a complete/working system with NS installed on it. It is a 2 day auction, and it will be interesting to see if it gets any takers.
it is rare, you know.
Quote from: "weps"Quote from: "nextchef"Talking about "fair price", a monostation system just popped up on ebay today, with a starting bid of $299. Once again it is a complete/working system with NS installed on it. It is a 2 day auction, and it will be interesting to see if it gets any takers.
it is rare, you know.
So is my belly-button lint. Mabey I should put it up for sale on ebay ;)
Chef
Thanks for the reply guys. I almost had a colourstation but the seller chose an American buyer instead of posting it to Aus. which I understand. So does anyone have a nextstation colour motherboard they are willing to sell me :D
And it looks like I am going to have to look out for a Y cable soundbox ect as well.
thanks for the advice, I was hoping to have a working system when it arrived.
Reasonable price is hard to tell based on what is the going rate. I paid about $300 for one from Chicago a few years ago.
Quote from: "Nightengale"NeXT Turbo Color 4.2, 3 cube cases waiting to be assembled. One HP Pavillion w/4.2, 1 iMac Rev B w/ Rhap 5.6, iBook w/10.3.9.
So Nightengale, how much for one of those "3 cube cases waiting to be assembled". You do not even need to assemble it, as I will take just an empty case to start with. You can even remove the next logo from it, as i have a couple here I can put on it. At this point, I will take what I can get before all the cubes are gone.
Chef
Trade you one for a mbx or a /8 :D j/k will have to think about that for a bit, actually been thinking about them on and off for quite a few years now. What I like to do is build them back up like they should be, not modding...hmm good question, don't know the answer just yet. I do have a Stacey 2 with spectre GCR and OS 6.x.x that I was considering for sale...
Quote from: "Nightengale"Trade you one for a mbx or a /8 :D j/k
I will not even pretend to understand what was just said. Any translators around?
I promise not to mod it with anything non NeXT, but I figure I better grab something before all the cubes are gone.
Chef
Quote from: "nextchef"I will not even pretend to understand what was just said. Any translators around?
Mailbox in a domain or a class A subnet...
Shoot I had you pegged as a 99'er.
mbx is the milton bradley expansion system for the TI-99/4A
http://www.videogamehouse.net/mbx.html/8 is the TI-99/8 prototype never released
http://99er.net/998.html
Quote from: "Nightengale"Shoot I had you pegged as a 99'er.
mbx is the milton bradley expansion system for the TI-99/4A
http://www.videogamehouse.net/mbx.html
/8 is the TI-99/8 prototype never released
http://99er.net/998.html
Nope, dont have any of those. Just a 99/4a with the TI expansion box with the 5 1/4 floppy.
Until getting involved with next stuff, and this board in particular, I had not thought about the TI in years, probably the last time I moved and had to haul it around.
Chef
I paid $400 for a Turbo Cube from someone that had posted a sale on this board...
I sold my 1965 Mustang convertible this year for $12K with some work that needed to be done on it.. If your '66 is mint, you can get up to 15-19 depending on the condition, extras, etc...
Ok nextchief let me see if I can get time to dig out those cube cases and I will let you know what they have in them. I can post pics, I'm sorry I'm so lazy! They are buried in my storage so I suppose I really do need to let one of them do someone else good!
Quote from: "Nightengale"Ok nextchief let me see if I can get time to dig out those cube cases and I will let you know what they have in them. I can post pics, I'm sorry I'm so lazy! They are buried in my storage so I suppose I really do need to let one of them do someone else good!
Thanks for checking on it for me. You can keep any innards, such as power supplies, drives, and motherboards for spares if necessary. I am ok with starting from an empty case, and filling it as I can.
Chef