A Teaser
I’m hittin’ the road in about 4 hours, but here’s a hint of things to come…
I’m guessing that maybe 3 people who read this will recognize the pictured object.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
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A $5k slab? I’ve never seen one before, having only known about the “cube”. The text in the photo is fairly easy to google-up.
Comment by Standard Mischief — June 28, 2007 @ 11:32 am
Forewarn me next time you drop down to TN and you may get a couple Indigos.
Comment by DrStrangegun — June 28, 2007 @ 11:43 am
Oh jeeze, I applied for a job there – in person. No luck.
Comment by DirtCrashr — June 29, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Very cool. Make that four people now who recognize the pictured object! I have a NeXTstation TurboColor and a Pyro Dimension NeXT Cube, although now I’m getting worried since I haven’t powered them up in four years.
Gotta ask you: are you sure your NeXT keyboard is buckling spring? I’ve read a bunch of posts that claim this, but I didn’t believe it. I have one of the old, non-ADB keyboards. So I pried off a keycap yesterday, and lo and behold, found an Alps keyswitch — not a buckling spring. So I’m wondering if there were more than one kind of NeXT keyboard in the old, pre-ADB days.
Comment by David — June 10, 2008 @ 1:19 am
I sold my non-ADB NeXTstation Color, so I can’t check to be sure it’s a buckling spring keyboard; it sure felt and sounded like one. I know the ADB keyboard on my non-Color ’station is NOT buckling spring.
Comment by TD — June 11, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
I’ve got a non-ADB NeXTstation and the keyboard is definitely NOT buckling spring (and I’m typing this on a 1984 84-key IBM AT buckling spring keyboard, so I know the difference).
I’ve heard of many keyboards that have been mistakenly described as buckling spring (including the Apple Extended II), but what they usually mean is that they have individual keyswitches. As far as I know, only IBM keyboards had the buckling spring – because they are a patented IBM design. I suppose a company could pay IBM for the rights, but of the hundreds of different keyboards I’ve tried (or own), only IBM has the distinctive clicky buckling spring.
Comment by mr_a500 — July 29, 2009 @ 7:03 pm