blog.smibs.com - 12/18/2008
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I am interested in the history of technology and I have a soft spot for the machines that became milestones in the history of computing. Recently, I had the opportunity to get an early NeXT Cube, the same computer that Tim Berners-Lee used to invent the World Wide Web! NeXT also happens to be ...
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NeXT Computer Unboxing, Twenty Years Later
TechCrunch —
Peter Urban at Smibs managed to find a rare NeXT Computer on eBay, and paid $400 to obtain the machine which was originally sold for $6,500. He unboxes it in the video below.
NeXT is the company Steve Jobs founded after he was booted from Apple in 1985. They originally made these extremely high end, high priced computers, but eventually moved to an all-software model.
It’s a historical device. Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT Computer in 1991 to create the first web browser and web server, and John Carmack used a NeXTcube to build ...
NeXT Computer unboxing, twenty years later
CrunchGear —
Peter Urban at Smibs managed to find a rare NeXT Computer on eBay, and paid $400 to obtain the machine which was originally sold for $6,500. He unboxes it in the video below.
NeXT is the company Steve Jobs founded after he was booted from Apple in 1985. They originally made these extremely high end, high priced computers, but eventually moved to an all-software model.
It’s a historical device. Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT Computer in 1991 to create the first web browser and web server, and John Carmack used a NeXTcube to build ...
NeXT Computer Unboxing - Video
D' Technology Weblog —
Peter Urban managed to find a rare NeXT Computer for $400 at eBay, which was originally sold for $6,500. Watch the unboxes video below.
NeXT was founded by Steve Jobs in 1985. They originally made these extremely high end, high priced computers, but eventually moved to an all-software model. It’s a historical device. Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT Computer in 1991 to create the first web browser and web server, and John Carmack used a NeXTcube to build ...
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