Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 3 days agoSteve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quakewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down14
arrow-up1144arrow-down1external-linkSteve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quakewww.tomshardware.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareTomMasz@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoEveryone I knew, including me, wanted one but couldn’t afford them.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days ago90s Unix workstations are so damn COOL! SGI Indigo, Sun Sparc station, NeXT Cube, IBM RS6000 and others are just so COOL!
minus-squareB-TR3E@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoYes. I developed a weakness for ancient workstations in the early 2000s and had all sort of shit. A few SUNs, SGIs (Octane, e320, Indigo2), an IBM multiprocessor machine (with distinct Xeon CPUs) and HPs but I could never get my hands on a next.
Everyone I knew, including me, wanted one but couldn’t afford them.
90s Unix workstations are so damn COOL!
SGI Indigo, Sun Sparc station, NeXT Cube, IBM RS6000 and others are just so COOL!
Yes. I developed a weakness for ancient workstations in the early 2000s and had all sort of shit. A few SUNs, SGIs (Octane, e320, Indigo2), an IBM multiprocessor machine (with distinct Xeon CPUs) and HPs but I could never get my hands on a next.