Rebuilding the NEXT PC on which the first Web page was published...

Louis Mamakos louie at transsys.com
Tue Apr 30 17:41:39 CDT 2013


No, the original is on an 8 inch magneto-optical disk cartridge.  I used to have a NeXT cube on my desk, and that's the computer that I wrote the UNIX reference implementation of NTP on.

louie
Wa3ymh


On Apr 30, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Joseph Bento <joseph at kirtland.com> wrote:

> On 4/30/2013 5:59 AM, Iain McFadyen wrote:
>> Techs at CERN are trying to recreate the computer on which the very first Web page was published.
>> 
>> They have the ORIGINAL hardware, but are looking for the original software to authentically recreate it.
>> 
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22349193
>> 
>> I'm sure Frank has a copy somewhere... ;-)
> 
> The original is probably on a 5.25... no, 8-inch floppy rendered unreadable due to the ravages of time.
> 
> Joe, N6DGY
> 
>> 
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