GNHLUGers, This message has little to do with Linux... other than the fact that I'm trying to breathe new life into an old NeXT box I was given so that I can have a UNIX box on my home network that will interact with my Linux boxes. Pardon the off-topic tangent, but I've run into a dead end, and I figured if any group of people could help, it would be GNHLUG. Years ago, I was given one of the original NeXT cubes when someone was going to throw it out. It has NeXTStep 1.0a and, while it has some cool games and a printer, it's never been all that functional. Recently, in a somewhat random way, I ran into someone who has several NeXT cubes and continues to use them. She offered to loan me NeXTStep 3.2 so that I could upgrade my box and actually do something a bit more useful with it. Here's the problem... the box I have has only a *optical* disk drive and a 380 MB internal drive. No CD, no diskette (oh, and only a BNC network, so I'm running some 10BASE2 along with 10BASET). The new software is only on CD, and I really need a bigger hard drive. Here's problem #2... the NeXT has an old SCSI connector - it's a DB25 that I guess was used on the old Mac computers for a SCSI interface. So my questions.... 1. Anyone have a clue where I could get a SCSI cable that has a DB25 male connector on it? 2. Anyone know where I could get a *external* CDROM and hard-disk? (I'm told the Sun external drives work real well... old and slow is fine.) I've checked the local (Manchester) surplus and repair computer places. So far I haven't found anything. Any leads would be useful. (Anyone have old Sun equipment they want to sell?) This is not a high-priority issue, but something I want to fix sometime. Thanks, Dan -- Dan York, Linuxcare, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxcare.com/ 1-603-264-0129 mobile, 603-268-0691 tel, 603-268-0103 fax Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
