NeXT
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This came into FreeGeek Vancouver, presumably because someone before me found it, stole the keyboard and tossed the rest....Might as well save it. Serial number 61.
Excluding the horrific cataracts that need to be addressed, the unit is very clean but that I can tell is the base model with only a 64K memory board and the external debugging/ICE pod.
There is exactly ONE piece of information about it that I can find online. RCA product catalog lists the base unit and a few addon boards but that's it. Dates it to around 1980-1982.
The power supply has a healthy +5 and +12 and the CRT seems to be basically new with a bright raster but it has problems. Powering on or resetting the CPU gives you a few chirps and then hangs with a long beep. My guess is it's failed self-test, but there is zero documentation for this, so it could mean anything. Lots of ram and lots of EPROMs.
I do have very high resolution photos of the boards and internals, if anyone is interested. It's about 105mb in files.
Excluding the horrific cataracts that need to be addressed, the unit is very clean but that I can tell is the base model with only a 64K memory board and the external debugging/ICE pod.
There is exactly ONE piece of information about it that I can find online. RCA product catalog lists the base unit and a few addon boards but that's it. Dates it to around 1980-1982.
The power supply has a healthy +5 and +12 and the CRT seems to be basically new with a bright raster but it has problems. Powering on or resetting the CPU gives you a few chirps and then hangs with a long beep. My guess is it's failed self-test, but there is zero documentation for this, so it could mean anything. Lots of ram and lots of EPROMs.
I do have very high resolution photos of the boards and internals, if anyone is interested. It's about 105mb in files.
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