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

[Howard Cunningham]

Hi

The NeXT  MO disks were 5 1/4" disks and held 256 MB

hc


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-----Original Message-----
From: tacos-bounces+howardc=macrollc.com at amrad.org [mailto:tacos-bounces+howardc=macrollc.com at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Rob Seastrom
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:57 PM
To: Louis Mamakos
Cc: tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Re: Rebuilding the NEXT PC on which the first Web page was published...


Louis Mamakos <louie at transsys.com> writes:

> No, the original is on an 8 inch magneto-optical disk cartridge.

Nominally 130mm (a scant 5 1/8") not 8"...

> 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.

You had me there for a minute on the timeline until I realized you meant v1 not "v0" (attributed to you and Mike Petry).

-r

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