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From: isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 030 + 040 in single cube ... the solution!
Summary: Doesn't NeXT expect these '030 boards to be returned!
Keywords: '030, CPU board
Message-ID: <15334@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 15:33:16 GMT
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In article <1991May2.205409.2623@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:
>In article <1991May2.111001.26346@nntp-server.caltech.edu> ptok@void.caltech.edu writes:
>>Couldn't you (for < $80) put the poor old 030 board in an enclosure with a  
>>power supply, and then ground the proper NUBUS ID on the connector?  (I vaguely  
>>remember seeing an early 030 with an empty IC socket, I thought it was for the  
>>NUBUS logic...anyone else remember something like that?)
>
>	I agree that this would be a much more elegant solution. My old
>030 in my closet is getting restless. I was thinking of turning him into
>a coffee table ornament, but then again, if it acutally works.... 
>	Maybe I *could* turn it into a coffee table with a powercord and
>a ethernet cable to my real cube.......... :-) 
>	What blasphemy. 

Just curious about those '030 boards that weren't returned to NeXT in the
provided package and prepaid shipping.  Wasn't part of the reasonable '040
upgrade deal contingent on the '030 boards being returned to NeXT?  I
appreciate the reasonable upgrade policy that NeXT has demonstrated so far and
don't want future upgrades jeopardized by those who don't "play by the rules".

I haven't heard of anyone paying NeXT a core charge (like in "rebuilt starter
motor", not "core dump" :-) for the right to keep the '030 board.  Is that what
has happened, or are some people just refusing to return what belongs to NeXT?
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