From: wave@media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson)
Subject: NeXTStation Developer system for sale
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:47:57 GMT

<I'm setting this distribution of this note to ne, so hopefully
 it will only be going to the New England area.  My apologies
  it goes further than that... - wave>
<Also note that I wrote this for a more general (non-NeXT specific)
 bboard, so it's a bit hypey.  Sorry... - wave>


Thinking about getting a Quadra to write papers at home?  Considering
purchasing a small SUN system to do UNIX development with?  Well, look
no further - here's one machine that covers both bases:

A 14 month old NeXTStation Developer system:

25 MHz 68040 NeXTStation
17" greyscale monitor (with built-in microphone and stereo speakers)
NeXT keyboard & mouse
400 MB 3.5" internal hard drive
2.88 MB floppy (can read and write Mac and DOS floppies too)
32 MB memory (with parity)
built in EtherNet (thin-wire and 10Base-T)
SCSI port
2 serial ports
DSP port
printer port (for NeXT laser printer)
user documentation (4 manuals)
Mathematica 2.0
lots of public domain software from the InterNet
all the original boxes and packing material
all cables (I even have a long monitor cable I bought so I could put
 the machine 3 meters away from the monitor)

This machine is a developer's (and/or grad student/hacker's) dream.
It's running the latest version of NeXT's operating system, which
includes lots of examples and plenty of on-line doc.  All the
developer's tools are bundled with the system (C, Objective-C, C++
compiler, debugger, etc).  You can start hacking immediately.  If
you've always wanted to own a NeXT, but didn't think you could afford
it, or were afraid you'd spend lots of money adding stuff, look no
further.  This has plenty of disk space (even with all the developer's
stuff) and lots of memory (the max this model can hold - I even used
parity memory!).

I'm even tossing in Mathematica 2.0 (since it's licensing ties it to a
CPU and that's what I'm selling - it won't do me any good once this 
machine is gone).

I've had this machine since last June, and it's performed flawlessly.
I love it.  The only reason I'm selling it is that I want to buy a
color machine, so I'm looking to raise cash to do so.

I figure a comparably equipped machine would cost you between $6000
and $10000 new, depending on how much shopping around you could do for
third party parts and how much of a developer discount you could cut
with NeXT.

If you're interested, drop me a line.  Don't wait, though.  I want
that color machine soon, so I want to convert this machine to cash
ASAP.

Serious inquiries only.  I'll expect you to be able to pay in full -
I'll have to pay in full to get my color machine, and remember, that's
the only reason I'm parting with *this* machine...

I'd also rather this was a local (within reason) transaction, as I
really don't want to deal with shipping this.

Michael B. Johnson
wave@think.com
wave@media.mit.edu
(617) 234-2092
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