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From: dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae)
Subject: Re: Ever heard of ColorConnect?
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.073710.23398@engin.umich.edu>
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 07:37:10 GMT

In article <1991Mar25.071042.5998@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> toshi@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu writes:
>
>In the November 1990 issue of Byte, an article on the new Next
>systems mentions a price-not-available device called the
>ColorConnect adaptor.
>
>This device is supposed to allow you to easily connect your own
>color monitor to the color slab.
>
>Anyone know if such a beast actually exists?  If so, what's it cost??
>
>Please post, since this info may save $$$ for people thinking of buying
>a Nextstation Color.
>
>/toshi	(toshi@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)


  I believe that's what the SoundBox was called back when--you get one with
your color computer if you order the right configuration; otherwise it's
around $125 retail, $88 developer price. That way you can forgo the NeXT 
monitor and get one of your own (68kHz I believe is the required scan rate)
and just plug it in! (Yeah, right.)

  While I'm posting, has anyone heard anything about release 2.0 being
made available on CD-ROM? That would conceivably make my backup options
a lot less expensive. Especially if you could boot from it--it'd be slow as
hell, but then the only reason I'd do it would be to rebuild a crashed HD;
I've had crashes happen in the past and lost 1/3 of my files...I really don't
want a repeat but can't afford any of the more expensive options, and from 
what I hear 2.0 on floppies isn't available (and would be even more of a
hassle than BuildDisk from CD-ROM!).

  Have fun with your colorstation

  Nik

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