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

[Howard Cunningham]

Hi

I have eight of these MO cartridges on my shelf.  Attached is an image of one of these with the closest thing to a caliper that I have....

You will note that it is 5 1/4" ...

hc


Howard Cunningham, MCP
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Seastrom [mailto:rs at seastrom.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 8:35 PM
To: Howard Cunningham
Cc: Louis Mamakos; tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Re: Rebuilding the NEXT PC on which the first Web page was published...


get your calipers out :)

-r


Howard Cunningham <howardc at macrollc.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> The NeXT  MO disks were 5 1/4" disks and held 256 MB
>
> hc
>
>
> Howard Cunningham, MCP
> howardc at macrollc.com - personal
> For technical support, send an email to service at macrollc.com or call 
> 703-359-9211 (24/7)
>
>
> -----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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