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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