One of the interesting items I got with the NeXT Cube is an older 68030 motherboard in addition to the 68040 that is currently in the machine. As I was researching about the NeXT computers, I found that its possible to make some very small modifications to the back plane that will allow two motherboards to be powered up. This means that its possible to the use the magic of net booting to make the 68030 a slave of 68040.

At some point I’ll need to get some memory simms to test this out.