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

Joseph Bento joseph at kirtland.com
Tue Apr 30 18:34:19 CDT 2013


On 4/30/2013 4:45 PM, wb4jfi at knology.net wrote:
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> If it is a NEXT, it’s probably on optical, not magnetic media.  I 
> remember Howard Cunningham showed an early Next computer at an AMRAD 
> meeting, which had ONLY an optical drive.  It took practically the 
> whole meeting for it to boot up.... at least that’s what I remember.
> BTW, I can still boot up and read 8-inch floppies on my Imsai computer 
> – so time has not ravaged them all.  SS/SD, but it works. I still have 
> much of both the CP/M and another user group’s library.  I also have 
> an Altair 8800 and an Altair 8800b turnkey, but they haven’t been 
> powered up in about seven years now.  How about a nice game of chess?
> Terry, WB4JFI
I'll fire up my 300-baud acoustical modem.  :-)

Joe, N6DGY

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