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Meh, I had a friend using his Netwon as of last year. Not seriously, but he loved the little bastard and ran a shitty old shareware webserver at one point for

by 616c 12y ago

Meh, I had a friend using his Netwon as of last year. Not seriously, but he loved the little bastard and ran a shitty old shareware webserver at one point for me. It took forever, but I remember it working. This was before he caved and used an iPhone smartphone, but we oft discussed how it was just too ahead of its time for the price tag. I think he got it, like other vintage equipment, especially Mac, by going for years to Rutgers University in NJ where his dad works and their IT infrastructure group was selling "this garbage" away because they had it in bulk and could not use it. How I wish I took him up on his offer to go when we were college buddies. Sadly Rutgers has apparently stopped as he checks every year to check if we have one last shot.

robterrell 12y ago
Duke used to do this, too. They had a warehouse and you could just walk through the obsolete equipment and find bargains. Most was beat all to hell, but we used to troll through regularly, as Mac gear was often recent vintage and underused. A buddy got a couple of NeXT cubes for pocket money. I still regret not buying the Pixar rack (literally an entire rack cabinet, the size of a kitchen fridge, filled with... something) for $700.
- 616c 12y ago
  I think I had a seizure. A PIXAR RACK!!?? I had humbler intentions when I was younger. My dad used to show me old SGi Irix workstations and Sun Microsystems. This was a clear decade before I touched my first Unix clone (Linux), let alone a real Unix (Solaris) a year earlier for gcc-compiled requirement for CS homework. I would hardly say that was "using Unix" because I could barely do anything with Solaris. Needless to say, I will peruse eBay to see Sparc workstations. I had no idea as a younger teen what my dad saw, but I same a beautiful minimalism in the design that I would later found out masked unique power and crazy price tags. It would have been really funny if I caved and bought this thing as teen. I would have no idea how to use it and parts costs would have killed me.

by 616c 12y ago

robterrell 12y ago

Duke used to do this, too. They had a warehouse and you could just walk through the obsolete equipment and find bargains. Most was beat all to hell, but we used to troll through regularly, as Mac gear was often recent vintage and underused. A buddy got a couple of NeXT cubes for pocket money. I still regret not buying the Pixar rack (literally an entire rack cabinet, the size of a kitchen fridge, filled with... something) for $700.

616c 12y ago
I think I had a seizure. A PIXAR RACK!!?? I had humbler intentions when I was younger. My dad used to show me old SGi Irix workstations and Sun Microsystems. This was a clear decade before I touched my first Unix clone (Linux), let alone a real Unix (Solaris) a year earlier for gcc-compiled requirement for CS homework. I would hardly say that was "using Unix" because I could barely do anything with Solaris. Needless to say, I will peruse eBay to see Sparc workstations. I had no idea as a younger teen what my dad saw, but I same a beautiful minimalism in the design that I would later found out masked unique power and crazy price tags. It would have been really funny if I caved and bought this thing as teen. I would have no idea how to use it and parts costs would have killed me.