Is there a NeXT museum?
Alan Perry
Is there a NeXT museum or collection somewhere? I have a couple of
interesting documents to donate if there is such a collection somewhere.
alan
mitchel...@worldnet.att.net
> Is there a NeXT museum or collection somewhere? I have a couple of
> interesting documents to donate if there is such a collection somewhere.
>
I don't know of one, but I think it would be really cool to start one.
Mitch
Godwin
check out :http://iris.dissvcs.uga.edu/~archive/NeXT/NeXT.html
Alan Perry (esp...@best.com) wrote:
: Is there a NeXT museum or collection somewhere? I have a couple of
: interesting documents to donate if there is such a collection somewhere.
: alan
Montgomery Gabrys
last I heard the origonal 030 NeXT cube was in the Smithsonian. That's a
nice start. Perhaps you should (and should I, I've got a ton of every
propoganda piece imaginable) consider donating it to the exhibit to flesh
out the presentation.
No idea who to contact, but it "would" make an interresting project.
mitchel...@worldnet.att.net wrote in article
<mitchell.allen-...@193.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net>...
> In article <5mmsn8$k1k$1...@nntp2.ba.best.com>, esp...@best.com (Alan Perry)
wrote:
>
> > Is there a NeXT museum or collection somewhere? I have a couple of
> > interesting documents to donate if there is such a collection
somewhere.
> >
>
Steve Kellener
Actually, the NeXT headquarters in No. Cal. had quite a few. In the
hallway they had a line up of black hardware. A row of machines
displaying each version of NeXTSTEP (0.6 and on I believe). On the
other side of the hall was the prototype black PPC machine, an HP, a
Sun, and an Intel. Pretty cool. I don't know if the stuff is still
there since the Apple deal.
STEVE K.
Eric Noyau
In article <33A226...@earthlink.net> Steve Kellener
a sun 386 / NeXTSTEP 0.6 (unreleased software)
030-25 NextCube / NeXTSTEP 0.8
030-25 NextCube / NeXTSTEP 0.9
030-25 NextCube / NeXTSTEP 1.0
040-25 NeXTStation / NeXTSTEP 2.0
040-25 NextStation Color / NeXTSTEP 2.1
040-33 NextCube with NextDimension / NeXTSTEP 2.2
040-50 NextStation Color / NeXTSTEP 3.3 (unreleased hardware)
88110 NextRiscWorkstation / NeXTSTEP 3.? NRW Alpha (unreleased soft/hard)
486-50 Compaq / NEXTSTEP 3.1
486DX2-66 Epson / NEXTSTEP 3.2
Sun SparcStation 20 / NEXTSTEP 3.3
Some kind of HP / OPENSTEP 4.0 PR1 (the tab shelf)
Sun Ultra / OPENSTEP for Solaris.
plus a couple of cubes running 2.2J and 3.3J.
Thanks to Kevin E. for building this 'Museum'.
-- Eric
Steve Dekorte
mitchel...@worldnet.att.net wrote:
> > Is there a NeXT museum or collection somewhere? I have a couple of
> > interesting documents to donate if there is such a collection somewhere.
There is a hardward guy from the old NeXT assembly plant that brought
a great collection of NeXT's (everything from the 1st Sun's on which
NeXTstep was developed, to the prototype RISC black box, an HP, etc)
to the ex-NeXT party. He might be interested.
--
Steve Dekorte - OpenStep consultant - San Francisco
Scott Mewett
Eric Noyau wrote:
> The whole setup is still there. In chronological order there is:
>
> a sun 386 / NeXTSTEP 0.6 (unreleased software)
> 030-25 NextCube / NeXTSTEP 0.8
> 030-25 NextCube / NeXTSTEP 0.9
.
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> -- Eric
What's this about a SUN 386. I have never heard of that before.
- Scott
David Evans
In article <5o3vq8$sm4$1...@news.apple.com>,
Eric Noyau <noyau*NOSPAM*@*NOSPAM*apple.com> wrote:
>The whole setup is still there. In chronological order there is:
>
>a sun 386 / NeXTSTEP 0.6 (unreleased software)
You sure it's a Sun 386i? I'm this -><- sure the first versions ran on Sun 3
hardware (Motorola-based).
>040-50 NextStation Color / NeXTSTEP 3.3 (unreleased hardware)
^^
You sure this is 50? It isn't a Nitro (40MHz)?
>88110 NextRiscWorkstation / NeXTSTEP 3.? NRW Alpha (unreleased soft/hard)
Anyone who's played with this...what's the user responsiveness like?
>Thanks to Kevin E. for building this 'Museum'.
>
For sure. Makes one want to go and try to sneak in. ;)
--
David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfe...@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Eric Noyau
In article <EBwEo...@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfe...@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
> In article <5o3vq8$sm4$1...@news.apple.com>,
> Eric Noyau <noyau*NOSPAM*@*NOSPAM*apple.com> wrote:
> >The whole setup is still there. In chronological order there is:
> >
> >a sun 386 / NeXTSTEP 0.6 (unreleased software)
>
> You sure it's a Sun 386i? I'm this -><- sure the first versions ran
> on Sun 3 hardware (Motorola-based).
>
morning: it's a sun 3/60. What's in there ?
> >040-50 NextStation Color / NeXTSTEP 3.3 (unreleased hardware)
> ^^
>
> You sure this is 50? It isn't a Nitro (40MHz)?
>
It was a Nitro (40Mhz, not 50!). But it has been replaced by a 33 since
the last time I've checked.
> >88110 NextRiscWorkstation / NeXTSTEP 3.? NRW Alpha (unreleased
> soft/hard)
>
> Anyone who's played with this...what's the user responsiveness like?
>
Not great. Better than a station. But I think nothing was compiled
optimized on this thing...
Ian Stephenson
In article <5o6idi$rg8$1...@news.apple.com> noyau*NOSPAM*@*NOSPAM*apple.com
> In article <EBwEo...@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfe...@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
> (David Evans) writes:
> > In article <5o3vq8$sm4$1...@news.apple.com>,
> > Eric Noyau <noyau*NOSPAM*@*NOSPAM*apple.com> wrote:
> > >The whole setup is still there. In chronological order there is:
> > >
> > >a sun 386 / NeXTSTEP 0.6 (unreleased software)
> >
> > You sure it's a Sun 386i? I'm this -><- sure the first versions ran
> > on Sun 3 hardware (Motorola-based).
> >
> I did the enumeration just by memory, so I went checking the stuff this
> morning: it's a sun 3/60. What's in there ?
68020, at about 15MHz(I forget), up to 24Meg RAM. Benchmarks at about 1
Mip. Nice Video card (slightly higer res than a NeXT! but only 1Bit on the
built in card). Solid SCSI and Ether connections. Basically a nice
workstation, circa 1987. Still a nice home machine, if performance isn't
an issue (can run BSD4.4 - something a NeXT can't do yet!).
I'd love to see NeXTStep running on my 3/60, even such an old version as
this! Not very useful, but deeply cool!
> > >040-50 NextStation Color / NeXTSTEP 3.3 (unreleased hardware)
> It was a Nitro (40Mhz, not 50!). But it has been replaced by a 33 since
> the last time I've checked.
"replaced" - thats an interesting word for it...
Looks like some happy hacker just improved the proformance of their home
machine! I had one of these for a while, and they are SO nice as desktop
machines - CPU still isn't great (say decent 486 speed), but the UI was so
snappy.
$an
David Evans
In article <5o6idi$rg8$1...@news.apple.com>,
Eric Noyau <noyau*NOSPAM*@*NOSPAM*apple.com> wrote:
>
>I did the enumeration just by memory, so I went checking the stuff this
>morning: it's a sun 3/60. What's in there ?
>
Something like an '020 at 25MHz.
>> >88110 NextRiscWorkstation / NeXTSTEP 3.? NRW Alpha (unreleased
>> soft/hard)
>>
>> Anyone who's played with this...what's the user responsiveness like?
>>
>Not great. Better than a station. But I think nothing was compiled
>optimized on this thing...
>
I imagine that the 88k backend support for gcc wasn't in the hottest shape at
that point.