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

[Howard Cunningham]

If anyone is interested, I can bring a couple to Taco this Saturday..

hc


Howard Cunningham, MCP
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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 9:37 PM
To: Joshua Smith
Cc: tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Re: Rebuilding the NEXT PC on which the first Web page was published...


Yup, exactly.  The idea was that you could keep your personalized environment with you.  Remember that these puppies were $6500 in late 80s dollars.  Students would go to a computer lab rather than hanging out in their dorm rooms with their own machines.  

As Terry noted, the MO drives were pokey even by the standards of the day (though not as bad as running a Mac off floppies).

I seem to recall the disk cartridges were a bit spendy too, couple of hundred dollars or more?  Outside of my budget at the time despite having access to a couple of them where I hung out.

(typing this on AppleStep^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMacOS X)

-r

Joshua Smith <juicewvu at gmail.com> writes:

> 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,
> --
> Josh Smith
> KD8HRX
>
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> Sent from my iPhone. 
>
> 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
>> 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: 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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