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Bleh, sorry to hear that. Never had any trouble with mine. Maybe you had too many college students? :)

• foobiekr 5y ago
  :-) well, it was a college lab. I had three big problems with the NeXT systems. One was the MO; that was dire and terrible and they should never have shipped it. This was very rapidly fixed by adding HDs to every system as soon as we realized what boat anchors the MO-only systems were. The second was the poor HW quality of the mice and keyboards. They simply broke a lot more frequently than the PCs, Suns (even the cheap pink/grey ones that I've forgotten the name of), SGIs and Dec systems. The last was that we were an AFS university and the NeXT systems, if you accidentally browsed the AFS top level directory, would hang the browser for at least 30 minutes. Super unpleasant if you needed to head to class since a locking screen saver did not kick in even after the browser recovered. As a side effect, we'd have students yanking the power cord which itself was not always something that the HD slabs recovered from. That said, I loved them, everything about them, and there has never been anything like that. The Sun-vs-NeXT thing was night and day.