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In article <1992Oct11.070727.10510@netcom.com> sphere@netcom.com (Sam  
Goldberger) writes:
- philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
- > 
- >I bought a Cube for precisely the same reasons you did. And for precisely
- >those reasons, it would take an act of God to get me to buy another NeXT
- >system.
- 
- Cube owners: don't despair quite yet. Some folks know of our efforts
- here at Spherical to keep the Cube alive and viable. To date, these
- have included:
- 
- 	1) The EPB (Enhanced Processing Board) 
- 	2) Maintaining an inventory of cheap, new optical drives
- 	3) Researching (and ultimately rejecting) the possibility
- 	of "SCSI-fying" the OD. 
- We're now at work on a new project that we believe will make
- the Cube the most desireable NeXT platform for some time to
- come. This consists of a process arbitration program that
- will automatically assign applications and processes to different
- boards in a multi-boarded Cube. 
- 
- We're also in discussion with a company that makes a C-Linda
- like product that simulates a shared memory environment over
- the net 
- 
- Now, a question--would you pay, let's say, $2500 to upgrade
- your Cube to the level of a Turbo Color Station? Please
- do send email, as this is not as goofy as it may sound.
- 
- Sorry for the long (and admitedly self-serving) post, but
- I love that black Cube and don't want to see it die, nor
- its faithful owners become depressed. Semper fidelis!
- Semper opticalus! Cubus aeternis!
- 
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- Samuel M. Goldberger	sphere@netcom.Com--NeXT Mail OK
- Spherical Solutions, 	47 Myrtle Avenue, Mill Valley, CA  94941
- 415.383.7512--voice     415.381.9556--fax
-  

 I have nothing but praise for Sam and his efforts to keep the Cube alive.  I  
bought my cube ( instead of a Color Station ) using the same reasoning Philip  
did, but I haven't given up yet.  
  Sams little tid bit about upgrading the cube to the level of a Turbo Color is  
very interesting.  I was thinking about this last night and came up with the  
following scheem,

  Make a 16 bit color board for the NeXT Cube and integrate the ADB so those of  
us who want it can get the ADB keyboard ( and whatever else we want ).  Throw  
in the new Adobe PixelBurst chip.  If this works as well as is advertised then  
the 16 bit color should SCREAM.  
  Now I thought about this, and I figure it wouldn't take up more than half of  
a the card even with 8 simm slots, so I thought, why not put a 486 motherboard  
on the other half?
  With this configuration you could develop and test for both architectures  
right in the one box.  You could even allocate a bit of disk space to dos apps  
( all of mine would be games =8-D ).

  Well, what do you think?
  Are you up to it Sam?  :-)

  Zeke
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