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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: CRAP Poll: Does The Tech Still Impress?
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 14:30:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 17:56 this Sunday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote at 14:31 this Friday (GMT):
>> > Werner P. <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:
>> >>I think the last computer which really impressed me, speaking of 
>> >>computers only was the NeXT Cube.
>> >
>> > I wasn't really all that impressed with the NeXTcube.  It wasn't all that
>> > different from existing Unix workstations, including being very expensive.
>> > I found the BeBox, released a few years later, more impressive as it had
>> > dual CPUs and a much more affordable price.  While not really aimed at
>> > consumers it was as close as we'd see to a dual-CPU home computer until
>> > a decade later when the first dual core AMD and Intel CPUs came out.
>> >
>> > Plus those "Blinkenlights", the two LED strips on the front of the case
>> > showing CPU load on the two processors, was really cool.
>
>> I got to mess with one once and it was really cool :D
>
> Where can we get this? Do they exist for laptop/notebooks too?


Ah sorry I meant I got to use a NeXTcube once ^^". I'm sure it wouldn't
be super hard to set up a raspberry pi or something tho.
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