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

[Joshua Smith]

So for those of us in the crowd that weren't around one of these...

The actually didnt have an HDD just one of these magneto-optical things? And you booted to it and also used it for your storage?

73,
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Josh Smith
KD8HRX

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On Apr 30, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Howard Cunningham <howardc at macrollc.com> wrote:

> 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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