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-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.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.zipcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days ago90s Unix workstations are so damn COOL! SGI Indigo, Sun Sparc station, NeXT Cube, IBM RS6000 and others are just so COOL!
Everyone I knew, including me, wanted one but couldn’t afford them.
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.
90s Unix workstations are so damn COOL!
SGI Indigo, Sun Sparc station, NeXT Cube, IBM RS6000 and others are just so COOL!