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Still have it. One of these days I'll get around to checking and see if it not booting is caused by a bad SIMM (I've got a set of 4 4MB SIMMs to swap in to test). Also have a Slab (which was owned by Wolfram), a couple of monitors and the NeXT Colorprinter (had a NeXT CD-ROM drive, but it was single speed and wasn't that cool looking, so traded it). Unfortunately my in-laws tossed the empty NeXT box which the '040 motherboard upgrade came in, as well as the similarly-sized empty box a NeXT-logo SCSI cable was in.
The NeXT Laserprinter was 400 dpi, w/ an option to run it in a fast mode at 300 dpi --- the difference between the two was marked and I once had to re-print a stack of résumés 'cause I'd forgotten to check that setting.
Also nice was having the ability to schedule printing to the Fax modem for when phone rates were cheap and knowing that the fax machine at the other end was essentially a 200 dpi PostScript printer (it was often noted that my faxed in résumé looked much nicer than others which were scanned first).
Running Mac OS X is nice, but frustrating at the same time for the reasons given previously (and others).
I'm especially going to be sad when Mac OS X 10.6.7 is no longer an option and I won't be able to run Macromedia FreeHand MX (which at v4 was a port of the NeXTstep program Altsys Virtuoso).
William
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