Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!ncar!boulder!tramp!hunt From: hunt@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Lee Cameron Hunt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: NeXT illegal when used at home??? Keywords: illegal, FCC? Message-ID: <10750@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 14 Aug 89 19:33:37 GMT Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: hunt@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Lee Cameron Hunt) Distribution: na Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 47 Hi again... Recently I posted an article concerning purchasing a NeXT (as a student) and using it at my apartment. This is one of the responses I received: --- From John_Corey@NeXT.COM Mon Aug 14 12:31:27 1989 Message-Id: <8908141826.AA00821@batcomputer.NeXT.COM> Received: by mandy.NeXT.COM (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/SMI-4.0Beta) id AA00214; Mon, 14 Aug 89 11:27:16 PDT Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 11:27:16 PDT From: John_Corey@NeXT.COM To: hunt@tramp Subject: Re: Graphics info wanted for the NeXT... Newsgroups: comp.sys.next In-Reply-To: <10727@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Organization: NeXT, Inc. Status: R Presently, the NeXT system is not certified to be used in a non-business enviroment. Apartments are an example of places which are off limits. The problem is that the certification has to be held up until the board is complete (the bus buffer chip has still to be release. The chip allows other manu- factures to plug in cards with little work in the area of the backplain interface). baker --- Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised by this. I apologize to the sender that I have not, as of yet, replied directly him as to the exact reason for this home ban or any other details (I felt this topic would be more fruitful as a public discussion). I assume the cause is the FCC (when "certification" is mentioned). I know that the FCC is a hard master to please when it comes to this certification as evidenced by the kludges and hacks I have seen on PC boards in order to achieve certification. I also know that certification takes time, and the FCC is a busy government agency. But, I still thought that the NeXT was certified (I've sure heard of enough people having them at home). So, it may be that my head has been in the sand and that this is old news. But if it isn't, I feel people should know about it. --Lee