[rescue] AlphaServer ES40 in Chicago- Anyone interested?

[Ian Finder]

Can I call dibs on the slab? I can get it locally probably.
On 3/27/08, Brian Deloria <bdeloria at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a NEXT Color Slab that I bought at a computer show years ago and
> never powered up. I didn't get a hold of the keyboards, could never meet up
> with the vendor again. Available for shipping and handling from Chicago, I
> don't want to pitch it I'd rather ship it some place.
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Michael-John Turner <mj at turner.org.za>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:58:18PM -0600, Robert Darlington wrote:
> > > But I have a real soft spot for SGI stuff, worthless or not, it's
> > > beautifully designed. They seem like, arguably, the absolute high
> > > point of workstation design in their era-- especially the Octanes and
> > > onyx. The NeXT is pretty beautifully designed too.
> >
> > Couldn't agree with you more. As a high school kid I can remember lusting
> > after the Indy, which SGI was advertising in Byte in those days (91/92
> > IIRC). SGIs certainly aren't the toughest machines, what with all that
> > plastic, but for me they're the perfect mix between form and function -
> > the
> > power of Unix but with multimedia support (for want of a better term) and
> > lots of style. And as odd as it is, I quite like IRIX and 4Dwm.
> >
> > Would love a NeXT machine, but I never managed to find one when I was in
> > South Africa and they don't seem to pop up on eBay too often now that I'm
> > in the UK. I do still have an SS5/110 and a copy of NeXTSTEP 3.3 for SPARC
> > that I must get around to playing with though....
> >
> > -mj
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> > Michael-John Turner
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