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From: vehaag@crocus.uwaterloo.ca (Viktor Haag)
Subject: Standalone NeXT attatch to Internet?
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 90 17:40:03 GMT
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Hello.  I am pretty much a UNIX and Networking neophyte, with a question
spawned from curiosity.  Suppose I buy a nice NeXT CUBE as a standalone,
personal computer.  I place said cube in my den at home, across the city
from my University.

I wish to finagle things so that my Cube can act as a site for me and friends,
so that they can send and receive email on the net, read news on the net, and
generally act as if they have accounts on a site on the Net (is that the right
way to put it?).  What hardware/software must be bought on top of the cube
in order to turn my cube into an Internet 'node' (again I am unsure of the
terminology or procedure used here, but you get the idea 8-))?

What are the pricetags, caveats, pro's, cons?  Are there any other alternatives
other than finagling a University account to use, Public Access account to use
etc?

Sorry for a question which may seem awful trivial and ignorant to you all,
I will happily accept answers by email to avoid clots here.

vik

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