Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!pacbell.com!ames!amdahl!JUTS!duts!kls30 From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Buying a 030 cube from businessland Message-ID: <35Wy02qb05UG01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 18:15:55 GMT References: <21730@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Reply-To: kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) Distribution: usa Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 54 In article ice@wang.com (Fredrik Nyman) writes: >gt1546c@prism.gatech.EDU (Gatliff, William A.) writes: > >>BTW, anyone have any idea how long these Businessland machines are >>going to hold out? >Probably not much longer. B'land apparently had about 500 machines to >liquidate. When I called B'land about two weeks ago, they had roughly >30 machines left. >-- Well this post is for two purposes. 1. I think Bland has a lot more machines. Actually I know they do. I picked up my cube on Friday. I went to their distribution center in Hayward, Ca. ( I live in Oakland). I talked to the person than gets the orders ready for shipping. He said they still have >150 machines. I saw at least 40 sitting in the warehouse and he said the warehouse down the street had a whole lot more. They may only have about 30 OD only machines. But they still have lots of machines in various configurations. 2. I received mail asking the condition of the machine I picked up. Condition is as foillows: The first cube I picked up had a dead DSP it seems that the person that pulled my order did not look at a tech. report that was taped to the box. It stated that the OD was flakey and DSP were dead. I took it back, they had the right machine waiting. --- Moral: Check your machine very carefully. Immediately!!!!!!!!! Now the machine I have is in perfect condition. The monitor has no images buned on it, keyboard is a little dusty but perfect, so is the mouse. The cube has 1 scratch on it (big deal). It is a NEW style cube with the new face plate and drive bays. The OD reads fine but is a little noisey. I've heard that is normal. Overall the machine is in excelent condition. I think I would have had to buy something right out of the box to get anything better. The OS was ver 1.0a and was complete including the Frame demo. BTW: The manager I talked to said the people that ordered early WILL get the best machines, even if they have to take a swap/hard drive out to get the best. I think this is true. Mine had somekind of swap/hard drive in it before. I know this because it still had the NeXT SCSI ribbon cable with terminating resistors still in the cube. Now I don't have to buy one. 8-) Only problem is I need to set up an entry in the /etc/disktab file. I think I can handle that. KeNT - NeXT owner, I'm hyped!!!!!!!!! -- /* -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers. */ /* For I can only express my own opinions. */ /* */ /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */