Looking to re-home some NeXT hardware

Santo Nucifora santo.nucifora at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 13:28:44 CST 2017


Hi Mark,

I have reached out to Chris (I am local) and will providing a new home for
the lot.  I will be happy to take hi-res pics of the board when I get them
over the weekend.

Santo

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On Mar 8, 2017, at 1:09 PM, <bulk at blit.ca> <bulk at blit.ca> wrote:
>
> > It's been a long time since I had the Cube open so this is from memory.
> However, I'm reasonably sure that this was based off a NeXT card (whose
> name escapes me) that was half bus interface and half prototype board so
> that you could build one-off interfaces.  I originally bought the Cube as
> surplus from the University of Waterloo, so I'm guessing that it's an
> interface to some piece of lab equipment.
> >
> > Here's a slightly blurry picture of the Cube's back:
> >
> >    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Sme9n3mG2UYUxuVWZ2eXhfS2M/view
> >
> > The Mystery Board occupies the leftmost slot (IIRC).
>
>         Now that is interesting! I concur completely, this does not look
> anything like my NeXTDimension. But it looks from the outside as though you
> have not one but two boards on the left side. My cube originally had only
> the board on the right of your picture (and in that same location). Unless
> there are internal connections between the two slots on the left side, you
> may have two Mystery Boards.
>
>         Very neat! I hope we get to hear more about this system eventually.
>                                                                 - Mark
>
>


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