The Unforgiving Minute

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Mark Twain

Thursday, June 28, 2007

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.

posted by TD at 12:33 am

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