"captain_spleen" (captain_spleen)
06/22/2014 at 02:37 • Filed to: None
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"captain_spleen" (captain_spleen)
06/22/2014 at 02:37 • Filed to: None | 2
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Pondering an "if I won the lottery" silly project.
I would want to buy a Nissan Cube, and turn it into a rolling NeXT Cube. As in the computer. A nerdy visual pun for people who are aware of a somewhat obscure 90s computer.
I have the specifications for the exact Sherwin Williams paint, so I can get that just right.
But I'd want it to have a better engine, maybe also get rid of the CVT.
How hard would it be to put in an SBC? Or, more to the point, how much would I have to pay a competent person to do it?
CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
> captain_spleen
06/22/2014 at 02:41 |
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If you could fit a Evo engine (probably the earlier ones), that would be massive fun and torque steer
V8 Rustler
> captain_spleen
06/22/2014 at 02:42 |
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This is awesome. In my school there are some NeXTSTEP Object-Oriented Programming books. I should go and give them a look.
Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
> captain_spleen
06/22/2014 at 02:44 |
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You might lose quite an amount of interior space.
Try this instead: QR25DER, factory supercharged to 250 BHP at 5,600 RPM. And it supposedly comes with a DCT.
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captain_spleen
> V8 Rustler
06/22/2014 at 02:46 |
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Mac OS X programming is pretty much the same stuff. "Cocoa" came direct from NeXTSTEP. iOS programming is very closely related, but the UI frameworks were done with a clean slate.
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captain_spleen
> Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
06/22/2014 at 02:55 |
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Niiiiice.
mcseanerson
> captain_spleen
06/22/2014 at 03:09 |
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I'm sure one of the fwd 5.3 V8s could swap in without a ton of fuss
Slickdeal
> captain_spleen
06/22/2014 at 04:47 |
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My college's most powerful workstations in the engineering computer lab were NeXT Cubes! We used them to program computer graphics, study kinematic linkages, and run ADAMS or Rasna Mechanica. This was in the early 90's. For anyone that used Apple Mac IIcx, IIci, IIfx, or Quadras between '90-'94, these NeXT computers blew them away in power and coolness with the NeXTstep OS.
Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
> captain_spleen
06/22/2014 at 11:04 |
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LS ALL THE THINGS!
But i don't know why i'm thinking of Cube GT-R. Put an RB26DETT in it.
George McNally
> captain_spleen
06/22/2014 at 20:59 |
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If it was me......I'd relocate the drivers seat to the rear of the vehicle directly in the center- the rest of the interior space, underhood area, etc- devote to a Pro-Mod blown big block.
Not sure where everything would fit, but it sure would be scary.
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captain_spleen
> Slickdeal
06/22/2014 at 21:09 |
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I bought a Mac SE/30 when I started college in 1989. A couple years later I discovered NeXT. There were two NeXTs on my school's campus, in a room for faculty. I was the only person who used them.
Not long after, Cornell closed a lab of NeXT Cubes and sold off the computers cheap; I was able to get a Cornell student to be my 'straw buyer', and drove up from Philly to pick it up. Cost me under $2000 - a huge bargain - had 8MB of RAM and a 256MB optical drive that failed soon after. I stripped my SE/30's 8MB of RAM and hard drive, and loaded those into the Cube.
I was fortunate also in that there was a small company near Philadelphia that developed NeXTSTEP trading software for customers like George Soros and First National Bank of Chicago. I spent two 6-month co-op jobs working for them.
I still have the Cube.
Needless to say, I was really happy when NeXT bought Apple for negative $400 million.