dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) (04/20/91)
Well, the local NeXT SE showed up and fixed my system for me. Happy day! And in the process (I'll probably get barbecued for this, but what the heck) I discovered that NextStep software does indeed exist on CD-ROM. I heard elsewhere that NeXT uses CD-ROM discs internally, and now I have seen *with my own eyes* such a beastie. So get on that phone, all you NeXTstation owners, and tell NeXT that you'd pay for such a thing (only, of course, if you really would). It seems to me that, short of buying the release on floppy, that a CD-ROM drive is one of the cheaper mass-storage "backup" options available to slab owners. ~ $500-700 dollars for a drive, I should *hope* a not-too-expensive disc, and hey, all the system stuff is there for when (not if) your hard drive crashes or some other calamity befalls. I can backup the rest on floppy (at least until I get that 1.2Gig external ;-). And last, a humble request (or two). Does anyone know where I can get my paws on the original Scene_Images from release 1.0? 2.0 just don't have 'em, and I want 'em. ftp? Maybe you could email them to me? Licensing problems? Also, I do have my filesystem back, but now I'm totally paranoid about what files may have vanished (some did; this is all I know so far). Could some kind soul do a ls -lg of their entire filesystem (from a virgin OD if possible) and email it to me so I can check files, owners, and permissions? I'd be *so* grateful if you could do that.... -- / Nik Gervae aka dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu | "It'll be finished next week, \ | CS/Linguistics stud. & NeRD at UM (go blow) | I promise!"--me | | | | | **When all else fails, bug someone who | "Just say an iguana chewed | \ knows (not me!). | up your textbook."--Jason Fox /
gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) (04/30/91)
In article <1991Apr20.062826.19543@engin.umich.edu> dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) writes: > (I'll probably get barbecued for this, but what the heck) I > discovered that NextStep software does indeed exist on CD-ROM. I heard > elsewhere that NeXT uses CD-ROM discs internally, and now I have seen *with > my own eyes* such a beastie. So get on that phone, all you NeXTstation > owners, and tell NeXT that you'd pay for such a thing (only, of course, if > you really would). I, for one, would be very interested in getting NeXT system releases on CD-ROM. I am part of the NeXT support for the RPI campus, and I'd much rather deal with one CD-ROM than a handful of floppies. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA