NeXT Computer Accessory Kit: What You Got With a $10,000 Workstation
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- Steve Jobs' NeXT Computer may have been a flop, but it wasn't for a lack of style. That style extended to its packaging and accessories, and you got a lot of cool stuff when you shelled out ten large. Take the NeXTstep with me as I explore a complete package of NeXT accessories included with the first NeXT computers and talk about the history of Steve Jobs' successful failure.
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Published November 23, 2022
Thanks to Steve from Mac84 for providing some extra VCF Midwest Auction footage! / @mac84
= Chapters =
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:15 - A Brief Look Back at NeXT
00:02:27 - The Rare NeXT Accessory Kit
00:04:34 - NeXT Brochure - Hardware
00:09:05 - NeXT Brochure - Software
00:13:42 - Quick Start Card and Extras
00:15:03 - NeXT Documentation Library
00:20:53 - NeXT Logo Sticker Sheet
00:24:11 - Magneto-Optical Disks
00:24:48 - NeXT Hex Driver
00:25:57 - Conclusion
00:26:56 - Outro & Credits
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I'm pleased that even though I lost in that bidding war, I can still enjoy this find vicariously through your video. Thank you!
You're welcome!
LOL! not ever day you get the bidding loser upvoting the guy who beat him.😂
What was your max bid?
Still got my NeXT step box with install disks. I'd ran it on a 486 that cost me 5k$ to build with 32Mb at the time.
My brother just sent this video to me. Love your presentation. And wow the NeXT had some interesting ideas. Much appreciated in sharing this accessory kit. Never knew it existed. At the time i had an Amiga and loved it.
8mm tape was also storage and transfer media, pretty good capacity and speed for the time.
I am very much enjoying your videos. The presentation and quality of info is of a much higher standard than your subs and views indicate.
Keep up the excellent work. Got anything on BeOS? Apple LISA?
I loved your Lian Li video, subbed. Maybe other old PC mfr pieces in the future?
Thanks.
This started as a blog/podcast, and I haven't been making actual video versions of the content until a few months ago, so I'm still new. I'll be the first to tell you I'm not a video person, despite helping invent video let's plays as we know them. :) So it's been a slow re-learning process. I would rather be writing or doing audio-only, but the reality is that the audience is on youtube, so I've accepted that fact and started working with it.
I don't own a Lisa, and no BeBoxes either. But I've got more stuff coming down the pike soon.
I believed it was only an computer for companies and Steve Jobs had an sense of humour with manual and guarantee postcard with an as iphone design packaging of documentations. This model of computer was conpared only with professuinal computers as sun systems or others in individual magazine. An enormous sense of humour with postcard guarantee for an product at 10000 dollars.
Can't argue with the NeXT's motherboard being Art.
'Bring it into existance through sheer force of will.'
For all of Jobs's *MANY* flaws, the man did have vision.
He also (generally) knew what he was talking about. If you haven't seen that NeXT sales strategy video that was making the rounds a while back, it's a good watch.
@@userlandia Sure, he knew what he was talking about which kept people from bullshitting him. However I just....
How he treated Woz alone is reason enough for me to dislike the man. Disowning his daughter, and his infamous cornering people and firing them if he didn't like their answers?
You're not wrong, although he and his daughter did reconcile later in life. Steve Jobs was a jerk on an individual basis, he at least knew not to, you know, do what certain billionaires are doing these days.
@@userlandia This is VERY true.
He viewed silence as a powerful tool.
Vs the mess BirdSite is right now. Glad i left.
I still have my NeXT computers. love them. was fun bac in the day
Great video, Dan!
Thanks, Steve!
You have a new subscriber from Turkiye gentlemen!
Thanks!
MO discs had their role in 90s-early 00s for medical imaging / storage. Until DICOM in networking really took off. (there were a number of proprietary systems at first which were a pain)
my claim to fame was writing a print driver to allow use of any hp lazer printer. still out there if y'all need it.
I'm sure the folks over at nextcomputers.org would be interested!
@@userlandia Hugh, I tried searching for it, does not come up any more. I have on 1/4" tape or 8mm tape or maybe on cdrom. I'll have to dig it out and send to them. It basically uses the PS renderer of the system and sends hpgl standard raster to the printer stream.
And then all you get nowadays is crappy electron apps...
I run nextstep on a HP 712 60 MHz and it's such a joy to use.
Any chance you would be willing to sell that next torx driver??
Sorry, but it's not for sale. Maybe someone over at the nextcomputers.com forum might be willing to part with one.
2:49 Tezro spotted
This video is awesome
Thanks!
Do the stickers even stick anymore? I feel like 30 year old adhesive wouldn't work as well.
The sticker stuck perfectly to my MBP with no issues. Maybe it won't stay as long as a fresh one but it's not like it's being subjected to the elements.
subbed
Thanks!
The lack of color was an absolute disaster at launch. If these things were color out of the gate, our company would have dropped everything and bought into the community overnight….simply because the Display postscript was like God touching our company and saying “here is your solution…go forth and produce!” What company? We Aran an independent yellow pages directory business that produced over 34 local community directories per year in western Washington. Right when Next came out, the push to go full color in the print directory business was coming to the forefront. Matching proofs for customers, to what was sent to the printer and eventually produced as a directory was a complete nightmare are. The print company we used, Donnelly out of Oregon, had to create custom color conversion tables to run on our massive PS dump files. Some directories were over 350 pages in length. If only…..if only….
NeXT was monochrome because they prioritized resolution over color. A decision that made sense if they hit their original 1987 ship date, but by the time they got to 1989, high resolution color was more affordable/feasible. But the hardware was baked in at that point... but color did come a year later with the NeXTstation Color and the NeXTDimension. Too little too late for them, though.
RR Donnelly used to be one of my customers; I was in the raster image processing business for many years. I can tell you stories about rendering monster postscript files. :)
Wow, we've reached that point where people literally forget how much a sun workstation cost in the late 1980s. Problematic.
I didn't really get into how NeXT's competitors stacked up in a price comparison, but I always found it amusing that NeXT gets the bad rap for being too expensive when Sun, SGI, and my local team Apollo's workstations were more expensive. I could have easily made a ten minute detour about NeXT's initial pricing blunders and how they failed while those others succeeded. You probably know all this already but I figure a comments section is as good a place to go into a detour as any. :)
I think it's because NeXT was trying to pitch itself to university staff and students, where it was legitimately expensive. Sun, SGI, and so on played in very high-end markets where their custom silicon was the real secret sauce. By that metric, the NeXT was a bargain for a UNIX workstation, especially if you could go without a printer. A base SparcStation in 1989 was what, about $9K list? Then you could option it up from there. $10K was the price when you bought a cube, display, and printer together at Businessland. Then, by the time you could actually buy a NeXT there was already an installed base of Sun, SGI, Apollo, and so on. But, IIRC, NeXT was the only one that attempted retail sales; any of the other workstations were sold via speciality sales channels where volume discounts and other special negotiations were in play. Buyers in those markets weren't necessarily interested in bargains either, they needed machines to solve specific problems and NeXT didn't really solve them... not out of the box, at least. Didn't matter if it cost less money if you couldn't run your 3D CAD software on them. NeXT solved _other_ problems, but odds are if someone was buying a Sun a NeXT wouldn't work for them.
Anyway, thanks for watching!
My god Jobs was a crook