The NeXT World article made me sad :(
I wish I could have been at that auction. Too bad I was ~7 when that auction was held :)
I was there.
One of my clients produced Steve's keynotes, product intro's etc. Anyway he couldn't attend the auction and asked if I would go and try to pick up a couple of "metro carts" for his shop.
Unfortunately for my friend, the metro carts were being sold in lots of - like 500 units.
Fortunately for me, however, they were selling Cubes individually and I picked up a Cube, monitor and printer for ~ $600 or 700 IIRC - no cables, of course, but my buddy was able to score me some through his connections at NeXT.
I think my Cube originally had a 480 MB drive & 16k memory. I've since maxed out the memory and added a HP 2 GB drive (and have about 3 more loaded with OPENSTEP as backups). Still use it every day for word processing & faxing (Linux on a Thinkpad for Internet stuff).
James
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I wish I could have been at that auction. Too bad I was ~7 when that auction was held :)
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Made me very sad.
yes sad, i would have been 9 at the time
There were actually 2 auctions.
The second auction consisted of new Laser Printers and new Color Printers.
The first auction was a great place to buy NeXT items.
Pallets of Optical Disks, keyboards, mice and a large lots consisting of any where from 2 pallets and up. The prices were great. Somewhere I might have the auction catalogue.
I didn't even know about computers at the time, let alone NeXT (I was 1 1/2).
Eric
The Nextworld article wa skind of sad, It reminds of the fate of IBMs Boca Raton facilities.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV8004.htmlThe article doesn't say but after OS/2 development moved to Austin they close Boca Raton down. And besides fixes there's no OS/2 development in Austin either these days.
At the second auction I bought 3 NIB laser printers. One went to my buddy & I kept two. Still have one factory sealed NIB.
James