Finished redeeming an Amazon gift card and Amazon showed me this. Yes, Jeff Bezos, I'm aware that you would like everyone to give you all the money.
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Folks in the Southeast, #VCFSE is two weeks away! I hope you can join up and try out all my esoteric OSes! https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/vcf-se-11-0-exhibits/
Big thanks to @codepoet80 for selling me a NeXT keyboard. That was the last piece I needed to have a full working NeXTstation setup of my own—no more borrowed components needed!
Success! I was able to get a clean NeXTSTEP 3.3 disk image loaded onto an SD card and it booted on the first try.
I want to back up and also keep the SD card it came with as it had some cool stuff on it. But the clean image fixes a few issues with that one, and it's nice to see what came out of the box.
And a really interesting bonus: seller said it had "Mac OS installed" and I was like 🫤 but turns out it has a NeXT program called Executor that runs Macintosh software. Will need to read up on it more!
Great news: the #NeXTstation that got lost in the mail finally arrived a month later, and it looks and works great!
NeXT monitor arrived, works, and the picture is *really* nice. The borrowed monitor I have has a known issue where the picture is super wobbly for the first 20-30 min it's running (!). By comparison the picture seems somewhat dim too. I didn't realize how much more enthused a good image would make me to play around with NeXT!
Slab is arriving tomorrow from the same seller (testing on a borrowed one today). Hopefully it's in as good a shape!
When an eBay auction has been a really good price but it starts creeping up
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