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

[Howard Cunningham]

Hi

The original NeXT cube used a 5 ¼”  magneto-optical drive manufactured by Canon.  It was a read/write drive and was the only mass storage device in the system.    A modification was to add a 40MB SCSI drive to be used as a paging file drive which dramatically improved the performance of the NeXT.



Howard Cunningham, MCP
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From: tacos-bounces+howardc=macrollc.com at amrad.org [mailto:tacos-bounces+howardc=macrollc.com at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Bento
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:34 PM
To: wb4jfi at knology.net
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Subject: Re: Rebuilding the NEXT PC on which the first Web page was published...

On 4/30/2013 4:45 PM, wb4jfi at knology.net<mailto:wb4jfi at knology.net> wrote:




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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