[geeks] Blink-NeXT Cases

[Andrew Weiss]

In the case of the rare NeXT bird, sales of the unit demands knowing 
your buyer well and insuring that said buyer will give it a good home 
and preserve it for posterity.  Such can be said for any of the 
following machines and older (but especially NeXT machines and other 
rarities where a top of the line 10 year old system is still going for 3 
grand):

Sun 3 and older (esp older)
any VAX product
SGI's in the IRIS or Powerseries or older.
Cyber's
Data General machines (esp. 88k's)
Cray 6400's
Univac, Eniac, etc.
Licensed copies of really old software like Xenix (esp. + hardware like 
the old Altos machines that ran it)
NeXT products (including t-shirts, coffee mugs, stickers, and 
paraphernalia)
Tandem products
IBM POWERstations and PowerPC products in the MCA era
anything unobtainium

Case in point... I have a useless machine that I have kept together as 
is... 500MB HD etc. just for the nostalgic value of the fact that it is 
an Apple internal prototype.  It's an 8100/80AV prototype.  There's only 
one person in the world so far that I think I'd give it to free of 
charge... and that's Pete.  I know he'd appreciate it.

Andrew

On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 10:51 AM, jrice at mail.texoma.net wrote:

> No I sell them as working Cubes even if the price is less.  What others 
> do with
> them is up to them.
>
> Also, buying NeXT cube cases, stripping the paint and buffing  the raw
>> magnesium to a high polish is popular with this group.  I've sold two
>> cubes on ebay that will probably meet this fate.  I can get more for a
>> clean empty case than a functioning cube.
>> James
>
>
>> Dont tell me that you're sacrificing working machines for this?
>
>> Bill
>
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