@tiamarquez0 Oh that's very cool. I appreciate you sharing that with me -- always good to know. I hope you enjoyed the video. This is one of my vary rare 'serious' tech videos -- all the other tech videos are crap -- but you'll get a few smiles out of them. Happy New Year. - Alfred.
Great vid. I absolutely love the workstation class hardware of the early-mid 90s (SGI, Sun etc), real unique and cutting edge stuff. NeXT is definitely some of the more unusual, almost as obscure as the BeBox.
I remember reading about the cubes in the mid-late 90s and using a NeXTSTEP look-alike shell replacement for a while. As I recall, you could buy readily and cheaply in the early 00s but, they're collector's items worth several grand these days.
That was absolutely amazing. I first heard about the Next in 1998 from a friend of mine who also bought one on EBay and explained to me the whole association of Steve Jobs within machine. It was only on a whim after discovering of Steve Jobs passing that I decided to YouTube next and your thorough overall explanation of the machine and it's entire history came up. Thank You very much for taking the time to explain it all. :)
This is way ahead of it's time! Nobody was doing graphics like that in 1990. Plus, this is such an elegent GUI compared to the clutter that came after it. Thanks for the tour. :) JC
Ok seriously tho awesome vid really awesome that you uploaded this, that is one beautiful machine, learned something new today thanks to you man, I had no idea about this piece of beautiful hardware
Hi, I have a NeXTstation, after watching the video I try to start it and it just hangs in the Mounting file systems start up screen, it used to work OK 2 years ago. I just wonder if some how I can change the HD and install the OS again, the problems are: what kind of formatting the floppy have to be? how do I put the files on a Floppy Can I use an old PC with a floppy drive?
The GUI of the OS looks much cleaner then it did in Windows 3.1 or 95 considering the age of the machine and that its only monochrome. The OS also looks very close to what we have today I don't know how to explain it, it looks very familiar. I hope one day I'll get a chance to play around with the Next cube =)
@kalasnikov47 It's no accident - the NeXT OS was the basis of Mac OS X, which is what inspired Microsoft to greatly improve their user interface after Apple's big comeback.
@matthewjsharpe Why am I impressed, because the damn LISA had it in 1983, and it took Apple's acquisition of NeXT before the Apple OS had it properly implemented. Yes, Amiga -- way ahead of it's time. Now, do you still HAVE yours? I have to assume YES -- dude, you MUST film it and post it as a video response herein.
@adiblasi Yes, Apple were really lost for most of the 90's weren't they! Unfortunately no - I sold my last Amiga - the aforementioned 68030/68882 powered A1200 - in 1999 for something like $300 and moved on. It was a sad day, but unfortunately Commodore had been ruined by a criminal CEO, and I just saw no point in keeping it - being unable to predict the retro collectables market in computing! Ah if only I had known! AmigaDOS 3.2 was good, but still lacked any security and virtual memory.
@matthewjsharpe Crap! Yes, I wish you still had it too. Well, consider pointing the camera on your face and talking about it for 10 minutes with photos and clips you find on the web -- that would be great, and post it as a video response!!
@vapourmile Actually, he was cool. I wrote to see if he had the Amiga, as I wanted to stimulate a video response. The Amiga was really ahead of its time! I hope you enjoyed this video. More to come, so stay tuned.
Did this thing have the Maths co-processor? Or was that on board on the 68040? I used to have a 68030/50Mhz with the 68882 maths co-processor in my Amiga, and it certainly did (full colour) Mandelbrot much, much faster than this!
too bad NeXT is pretty much dead. it is now the bust bin of history. we have Windows, MacOS and Linux. there are some Unix variants still kicking. Amiga is dead even though it was used for music
@thothuc NeXTSTEP was also based on the Mach microkernel. The original OS X API's were based straight off of NeXT's API's. IOS shares the Mach Microkernel arch with OS X, and it contains a specialized set of API's for touch, but they are similar to the OS X API's and all three use the Objective-C language. All three are VERY similar from an architecture and programming standpoint.
It is a bit upsetting to see how innovation of 5 people around 20 years ago still steering the acclaimed most advanced OS nowadays, and upon realizing this, think about how IT industry could become if the companies like Microsoft and IBM or Sun could convince their investor to put slight more focus on invocation factors and work more closed with the brightest minds from academic.
@lichuan80 My aim isn't to defend Apple in saying this, but saying that the technology is inferior because it's based on technology from 20 years ago is like calling the human race inferior. I agree, there needs to be more work, especially more researc for exokernels, but google code has been helping a lt of ese projects along. sorry for teh typos but my vbrowser started tweaking out
@lichuan80 and the innovation 20 years ago was based on an operating system that was already 20 years old 20 years ago :-) UNIX is what, about 41 years old now? Admittedly, todays UNIX is different than the first iteration from 1969, but still - it's Unix. I love BSD in all of it's incarnations (PCBSD is what I'm fiddling with at the moment). I just love computers man, all operating systems, all processors - I have fun with it, especially the vintage stuff.
Everyone says how innovative apple is but they really haven't moved OS X on that much from NextStep considering it's been 18 years which in tech terms is a century. Apple stole the GUI from Xerox and OS X from next (even if it was Steve Jobs) NextStep was magnificent considering they had minuscule specs to run the os on. If modern software designers had the same innovation and attention to detail on modern specs the computers would be insane.
I've never used an actual NeXT box, but it's nice to see how smooth it looks in your video. Reminded me a bit of the Amigas back in the day, they also were very smooth given their relatively modest CPU.
Back in those days I've also used 486 computers with early versions of linux and FreeBSD, but it wasn't anywhere near as smooth as this NeXT, despite the CPU probably being more powerful than this 040 at 25 MHz.
This hardware and kernel/OS just look nicely tuned to eachother.
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I remember having a NeXT cube, and i LOVED IT!!! and yes, i do believe they had CD drives, and definately had floppy drives. lol the screen saver amazed me
that thing on the desk made the internet dudes i think, i still can't believe neXt isn't around today even designed the net from Tim Berners-Lee..... jesus doesn't Times changed alot
I used one of these back in 1991 or so, in university. It was MILES ahead of its time. Ours was a colour version, which did 24-bit colour with no speed penalty. Native PostScript! Objective C API, BSD networking, fast laser printer, too bad Steve overpriced it but he was a stickler for quality.
Extremely advanced for its time and clearly you can see the roots of os X. Apple has "borrowed" a lot from Steve's NeXT and yes Apple is Steve Jobs since everything seems to have come from his mind.
I really like the case for the cube. I would like to have one to mod up by putting the guts of a mac pro in it.
Steve is neither a Programmer, Engineer nor a Designer. He is just the ultimate end user and i think this is the reason behind his success, because the resulting designs aren't targeted at engineers which is what engineers tend to do.
Plus he seems to have a real talent to pick out the right people who have a vision - thats the only explanation i can think of for how great the development tools, libraries and philosophies are.
Wonderful demonstration - After reading the view of the NextCube in Byte magazine, I always thought it would be a cool machine to have - though the price (15K pounds) for a monochrome screen put me off :)
Check out my Museum Section. I have a NeXT Cube, and Slab, both in working order. Still wanting to get a Turbo Color Slab, ah the first UNIX machine I ever used.
It will be interesting to see what becomes of HaikuOS (open source BeOS).
OSX on an Alu PB 1.33 seems sluggish compared to that Cube!
Read that Pages for NeXTSTEP was great, and as much about layout as word-processing. Someone said Pages for NeXT was in some ways better than the new one from Apple, but haven't tried it.
I think it was after they switched to intel, and now the quality is horrible. Not just the build quality, but now apple's computers are just poorly designed when it comes to cooling, durability, etc.
this video PROVES it that MS stole the whole "task bar" idea becoz look how in this video the computer shows programs have been minimized........ the way windows 7 shows running programs at the bottom of the screen is almost identical to how the NeXT OS does it! u cant say Apple copied NeXT coz Apple PAID to use the NeXT OS...
oh my! went to the shop back than at leidseplein (a'dam) asking 'for one of them doing three d'! - 'no do, get a windows' - no way!! i ended up with an apple. fuck! i have 2 cubes but still, i want a next! can't imagine where i would be today if i would have scored one. just amazing, a piece of art - ahead of time in so many ways. thank u 4 recording & posting
Pages wasn't a NeXT product. Pages, Inc. developed Pages and later, Web Pages on NeXTSTEP. When they went out of business, the name was available. so Apple's iWork group used it.
i like Macs and PCs equally. funny how people complain about vista, and yet now that i've tried it i'm satisfied. Of course, my new computer is having some minor PSU issues, but i really can't blame that on windows when it's a hardware problem.
Well, i am looking for a G3 iBook (and a G3 iMac in matching colors). After all, Low End Mac says they make great 'On-The-Road' machines, plus it supports Wi-Fi and i can do any intensive tasks i need to do on my main windows machine.
openstep dosn't have fancy puffs of smoke when you drag an item off the dock? well, that was in OS X anyway...great job though, it's sad to hear that lots of NeXT computers were burned/destroied, huh?
if you change your shutter speed to a multiple of 30 you should get rid of the flicker... you may also need to set your display refresh rate to be 60Hz.
Nice job. You really seem to enjoy making these videos. I've always been curious about NeXT machines and wanted to know more about them, and I found this to be a very informative and historical summary and demonstration of this system.
You get a lot of stuff in ebay, dont you?
externalchicken1 3 days ago
Thanks for the video! Really cool
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jackiecastro410 1 week ago
Alfred i just bought a NeXT station computer, Do you own a NeXT station
stevesretrocomputing 2 weeks ago
Thanks is a great idea
1357primo 2 weeks ago
ahh the mouse has 2 buttons
Randomguy578 2 weeks ago
ha you said motaroler
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tiamarquez0 4 weeks ago
@tiamarquez0 Oh that's very cool. I appreciate you sharing that with me -- always good to know. I hope you enjoyed the video. This is one of my vary rare 'serious' tech videos -- all the other tech videos are crap -- but you'll get a few smiles out of them. Happy New Year. - Alfred.
adiblasi 4 weeks ago
Great vid. I absolutely love the workstation class hardware of the early-mid 90s (SGI, Sun etc), real unique and cutting edge stuff. NeXT is definitely some of the more unusual, almost as obscure as the BeBox.
IMO NeXT was Job's finest work.
Asteroid2C 1 month ago
The technology may have been ahead - but so was the price - around 10 to 14k, back then.
jwd0808 2 months ago
Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
I remember reading about the cubes in the mid-late 90s and using a NeXTSTEP look-alike shell replacement for a while. As I recall, you could buy readily and cheaply in the early 00s but, they're collector's items worth several grand these days.
DCxOZ 2 months ago
Made in USA, this is rare!
Bolfarola 3 months ago
That was absolutely amazing. I first heard about the Next in 1998 from a friend of mine who also bought one on EBay and explained to me the whole association of Steve Jobs within machine. It was only on a whim after discovering of Steve Jobs passing that I decided to YouTube next and your thorough overall explanation of the machine and it's entire history came up. Thank You very much for taking the time to explain it all. :)
dieselthirteen 3 months ago
RIP Steve Jobs.
andayy 3 months ago
This is way ahead of it's time! Nobody was doing graphics like that in 1990. Plus, this is such an elegent GUI compared to the clutter that came after it. Thanks for the tour. :) JC
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halmandery 3 months ago
"No more benzine, please." why is that my favorite quote on this whole video? The fact that it's 2AM may have something to do with it.
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hardcoded 4 months ago
My tribute to NeXT computers , I rename my home made PC ... NeXT , A Phenom x6 procesors, Radeon HD6850 in a NZXT Vulcan case .
Steve Jobs: Good artists copy great artists steal
djmomocrx 4 months ago
It's so cool to see some of the window layouts similar to the ones on Mac OS X, like the font-panel and the color-picker are good examples.
asiandawn69 4 months ago
this is an amazing piece of history. i only wish i could afford to get my hands on one
mattcontos 5 months ago
If i open so many apps in my computer it will probably shutdown!
ChocosoftPC 5 months ago
it can drink now! Yay!
Username42100 5 months ago
Nice, I used one of these at university, to avoid the awful Sun workstations.
zck7 6 months ago 4
i never bought one it was to much of a wast compared to what was on the market
vorkev1 8 months ago
want:
casemod + gnustep ..
walter0bz 9 months ago
Can it run Crysis?
Ok seriously tho awesome vid really awesome that you uploaded this, that is one beautiful machine, learned something new today thanks to you man, I had no idea about this piece of beautiful hardware
FeeLtheHertZ 9 months ago
Where is the follow up video?
luigi90900 9 months ago
Good grief, you're a vacuum cleaner salesman aren't you? Look at that pressed polo...whole box 'a starch on it LOL!
CosmicDamian 10 months ago
@CosmicDamian No. I own an ad agency.
adiblasi 10 months ago 13
@adiblasi then put an ad video on youtube:
"I know you have waited for a commercial to watch this commercial.
If you want more ads on youtube, then just talk to me!
I will help your company grow and annoy people with more ads!"
And say this with italian mafia guy accent.
PCGamerOfToday 5 months ago
@CosmicDamian lol
hypnotix2000 6 months ago
Better than XP. No, I'm not kidding.
MrBearRoars 11 months ago
Actually this hardware seems to be the very last computer hardware ever made in the U.S. ...
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Hi, I have a NeXTstation, after watching the video I try to start it and it just hangs in the Mounting file systems start up screen, it used to work OK 2 years ago. I just wonder if some how I can change the HD and install the OS again, the problems are: what kind of formatting the floppy have to be? how do I put the files on a Floppy Can I use an old PC with a floppy drive?
MrRiffraff7 1 year ago
The GUI of the OS looks much cleaner then it did in Windows 3.1 or 95 considering the age of the machine and that its only monochrome. The OS also looks very close to what we have today I don't know how to explain it, it looks very familiar. I hope one day I'll get a chance to play around with the Next cube =)
kalasnikov47 1 year ago 2
@kalasnikov47 Hi - I am glad you enjoyed the video, and hopefully it gave you a little taste of that system! Merry Christmas - Alfred.
adiblasi 1 year ago
@kalasnikov47 It's no accident - the NeXT OS was the basis of Mac OS X, which is what inspired Microsoft to greatly improve their user interface after Apple's big comeback.
plaidfluff 10 months ago
@kalasnikov47 u can run it on vmware! ;) works like a charme. happy playing
pacman2k1 3 months ago
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u sound like microsoft sam
vinny9er 1 year ago
And why is he so impressed by the pre-emptive multitasking? Again the Amiga had that in 1984.
matthewjsharpe 1 year ago
@matthewjsharpe Why am I impressed, because the damn LISA had it in 1983, and it took Apple's acquisition of NeXT before the Apple OS had it properly implemented. Yes, Amiga -- way ahead of it's time. Now, do you still HAVE yours? I have to assume YES -- dude, you MUST film it and post it as a video response herein.
adiblasi 1 year ago
@adiblasi Yes, Apple were really lost for most of the 90's weren't they! Unfortunately no - I sold my last Amiga - the aforementioned 68030/68882 powered A1200 - in 1999 for something like $300 and moved on. It was a sad day, but unfortunately Commodore had been ruined by a criminal CEO, and I just saw no point in keeping it - being unable to predict the retro collectables market in computing! Ah if only I had known! AmigaDOS 3.2 was good, but still lacked any security and virtual memory.
matthewjsharpe 1 year ago
@matthewjsharpe Crap! Yes, I wish you still had it too. Well, consider pointing the camera on your face and talking about it for 10 minutes with photos and clips you find on the web -- that would be great, and post it as a video response!!
adiblasi 1 year ago
@adiblasi You defused that matthewjsharpe really well. People who pitch flame-wars are the bane of You Tube.
vapourmile 1 year ago
@vapourmile Actually, he was cool. I wrote to see if he had the Amiga, as I wanted to stimulate a video response. The Amiga was really ahead of its time! I hope you enjoyed this video. More to come, so stay tuned.
adiblasi 1 year ago
Did this thing have the Maths co-processor? Or was that on board on the 68040? I used to have a 68030/50Mhz with the 68882 maths co-processor in my Amiga, and it certainly did (full colour) Mandelbrot much, much faster than this!
matthewjsharpe 1 year ago
What's th screen resolution? It looks quite sharp, for an early 90's machine.
Gregz0r1 1 year ago
@Gregz0r1 If I recall correctly the Megapixel display ran at 1152x864.
benleyfnordomatic 1 year ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing! What were those things worth back then when they were for sale?
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NeXT is useless.
thothuc 1 year ago
@thothuc
NeXt is useless? you have to know that the WorldWideWed was built on a next machine
angelusp777 1 year ago
@angelusp777
too bad NeXT is pretty much dead. it is now the bust bin of history. we have Windows, MacOS and Linux. there are some Unix variants still kicking. Amiga is dead even though it was used for music
thothuc 1 year ago
@thothuc OS X IS NeXT. It shares it's programming API's and design philosophy with the original NeXT OS.
kaplanfx 1 year ago
@kaplanfx
yeah but the Mac OS X is based on Mach Unix kernel.
thothuc 1 year ago
@thothuc NeXTSTEP was also based on the Mach microkernel. The original OS X API's were based straight off of NeXT's API's. IOS shares the Mach Microkernel arch with OS X, and it contains a specialized set of API's for touch, but they are similar to the OS X API's and all three use the Objective-C language. All three are VERY similar from an architecture and programming standpoint.
kaplanfx 1 month ago
Wow, I didn't realize the cube was so big. Hey, thanks for the upload. Always looking for vintage computers.
justin76pa 1 year ago
it can play wow
jonoaa 1 year ago
i want nextstep os
fighterpiolt1992 1 year ago
@fighterpiolt1992
You can get OpenStep wich basically is NeXT Step for PC's
juanskom 1 year ago
wow... that was one nice machine, can't wait for any follow up videos you make about it... vintage computing rocks!
Dragonsrule89 1 year ago
The black box looks awesome.
Why were computers of that era all beige? All the way to the mid/late 90s it was all beige. Why?
Molo9000 1 year ago
@Molo9000 because nobody started "thinking differently" yet also i'm assuming cheap material
BTVideos1 1 year ago
Yeah I believe these workstations sold for between $9,000 to $13,000.
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strwag 1 year ago
Wow! It's slower than my iPod touch!!!
weinerschnitzelboy 1 year ago
@weinerschnitzelboy cool!
sparkey989 1 year ago
Fantastic!
bobdole57 1 year ago
Unix !
yourihemeleers 1 year ago
It is a bit upsetting to see how innovation of 5 people around 20 years ago still steering the acclaimed most advanced OS nowadays, and upon realizing this, think about how IT industry could become if the companies like Microsoft and IBM or Sun could convince their investor to put slight more focus on invocation factors and work more closed with the brightest minds from academic.
lichuan80 1 year ago
@lichuan80 My aim isn't to defend Apple in saying this, but saying that the technology is inferior because it's based on technology from 20 years ago is like calling the human race inferior. I agree, there needs to be more work, especially more researc for exokernels, but google code has been helping a lt of ese projects along. sorry for teh typos but my vbrowser started tweaking out
CabbageNappa 1 year ago
@lichuan80 and the innovation 20 years ago was based on an operating system that was already 20 years old 20 years ago :-) UNIX is what, about 41 years old now? Admittedly, todays UNIX is different than the first iteration from 1969, but still - it's Unix. I love BSD in all of it's incarnations (PCBSD is what I'm fiddling with at the moment). I just love computers man, all operating systems, all processors - I have fun with it, especially the vintage stuff.
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tubeguy453 1 year ago
your videos is awesome, i love this channel :D
NamelessNLS 1 year ago
Everyone says how innovative apple is but they really haven't moved OS X on that much from NextStep considering it's been 18 years which in tech terms is a century. Apple stole the GUI from Xerox and OS X from next (even if it was Steve Jobs) NextStep was magnificent considering they had minuscule specs to run the os on. If modern software designers had the same innovation and attention to detail on modern specs the computers would be insane.
mystermoores 1 year ago 2
Nice video, Al!
I've never used an actual NeXT box, but it's nice to see how smooth it looks in your video. Reminded me a bit of the Amigas back in the day, they also were very smooth given their relatively modest CPU.
Back in those days I've also used 486 computers with early versions of linux and FreeBSD, but it wasn't anywhere near as smooth as this NeXT, despite the CPU probably being more powerful than this 040 at 25 MHz.
This hardware and kernel/OS just look nicely tuned to eachother.
Scalibq 1 year ago
So it can run on a SPARC?
Fantastic.
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wicked review-LOVE NeXT SO MUCH!!!!!!!- BTW you type really really fast!
wutzerface77 2 years ago
Great great video! Thanks!
kanfor 2 years ago
Your video's are some of the best, man. Keep it up!
tipoomaster 2 years ago
does it have any type of optical drive or floppy?
praedcher 2 years ago
I remember having a NeXT cube, and i LOVED IT!!! and yes, i do believe they had CD drives, and definately had floppy drives. lol the screen saver amazed me
Computerfreaq15 2 years ago
that thing on the desk made the internet dudes i think, i still can't believe neXt isn't around today even designed the net from Tim Berners-Lee..... jesus doesn't Times changed alot
themaninthevan0 2 years ago
next kind of is around today it is at the heart of MAC OS X
bsctkszos 2 years ago 13
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2Hamsterz 2 years ago
Quote from Space Quest IV that's relevant to my point (if you think about it):
"The change machine looks more like a time machine then the time machine looks like a time machine!"
poopskinTheLiar 2 years ago
It's kind of funny how this is closer to the iMac then the Macintosh SE. OS X's common ancestor didn't even run on macs!
poopskinTheLiar 2 years ago
I'd say the NeXT Cube is more like the PowerMac G4 Cube released in 2000 :)
macnerd93 2 years ago
Anyone know if there are emulators out there for OS's like the NeXT (or anything thats old-ish, really)?
tipoomaster 2 years ago
openstep/nextstep have intel versions so u could use sun's virtual box i think
RevoXXBlog 2 years ago
Use vitualbox and run openstep on it
reiknir 2 years ago
that thing is older then me lol
d3jsp 2 years ago 2
I used one of these back in 1991 or so, in university. It was MILES ahead of its time. Ours was a colour version, which did 24-bit colour with no speed penalty. Native PostScript! Objective C API, BSD networking, fast laser printer, too bad Steve overpriced it but he was a stickler for quality.
pchapman905 2 years ago 3
Extremely advanced for its time and clearly you can see the roots of os X. Apple has "borrowed" a lot from Steve's NeXT and yes Apple is Steve Jobs since everything seems to have come from his mind.
I really like the case for the cube. I would like to have one to mod up by putting the guts of a mac pro in it.
NorCalExplorer 2 years ago 2
Steve is neither a Programmer, Engineer nor a Designer. He is just the ultimate end user and i think this is the reason behind his success, because the resulting designs aren't targeted at engineers which is what engineers tend to do.
Plus he seems to have a real talent to pick out the right people who have a vision - thats the only explanation i can think of for how great the development tools, libraries and philosophies are.
alizta 2 years ago 42
@alizta wrong.
lukewfilms 1 year ago
Wonderful demonstration - After reading the view of the NextCube in Byte magazine, I always thought it would be a cool machine to have - though the price (15K pounds) for a monochrome screen put me off :)
EdinburghGuy 2 years ago
Check out my Museum Section. I have a NeXT Cube, and Slab, both in working order. Still wanting to get a Turbo Color Slab, ah the first UNIX machine I ever used.
sirloxelroy 2 years ago
I Still use windowmaker quite a bit. WindowMaker is a GUI recreation of NeXTStep, give it a try some time in Linux. :-)
sirloxelroy 2 years ago
might sound like a little thing but several examples show mainstream gui's took the wrong path on the menu issue.
Much more elegant to only show the menu from the current focussed app. only. Hence the clean look.. it's great.
such a shame most apps the world over have a stupid menu permanently visible.
When something isn't focussed, you only want it visible to refer to info inside it, not to directly interact with.
walter0bz 2 years ago
you are a cool dude and i wish i knew someone like you in my area. I'd work for you in a heartbeat.
Captnuendo 2 years ago
I really enjoyed that. Excellent work.
rleslievideo 2 years ago
It will be interesting to see what becomes of HaikuOS (open source BeOS).
OSX on an Alu PB 1.33 seems sluggish compared to that Cube!
Read that Pages for NeXTSTEP was great, and as much about layout as word-processing. Someone said Pages for NeXT was in some ways better than the new one from Apple, but haven't tried it.
fleskebille 2 years ago
What the fuck are u doing with a SMatBoard
XxMEVANSxX 2 years ago
I have seen one at CERN
thisusersuck 2 years ago
yeah i'd really like to see a review of rhapsody. its a rare find. :) please review rhapsody beta :D
LikeNoOthr666 2 years ago
i want one now!
anilingus 2 years ago
put OS x on it
bhumm25 2 years ago
if u did that the apple logo wud probably hav 2 spin round at start up for at least an hour!!!!!
aaroninclub 2 years ago
You can really see OS X's legacy within this OS, brilliant stuff!
martynm 2 years ago 2
Two button mouse? Why Steve, what a great idea!!!!!
drtyrell969 2 years ago 2
The NeXT Cube was a sexy bit of hardware and way ahead of its time! Many thanks for the video.
maxheadroom1987 2 years ago
R.I.P Power PC mac os X 10.6 doesnt support PowerPC only intel macs :'(
sirleebzxx25 2 years ago
PowerPC: 7.5.5 to 10.5.8
aaroninclub 2 years ago 2
Did he say Motoroller?
bphendri 2 years ago
motarola
fairyheli2 2 years ago
was this on a stealthcast?
kargaroc386 2 years ago
yes
cugocat12 2 years ago
How did you learn to type so fast? I learned on my own and just use 2 fingers to type. Obviously not very productive, but I can't shake the habit.
marick626 2 years ago
Well you're not going to be able to type fast with 2 fingers, i can tell you that much.
wolfgoblin 2 years ago 2
Im amazed with the resolution, the size of the monitor, OMG chess in 3d, This was back in 1990. Impressive!
Comptons1989 2 years ago
Not for an Amiga user it isn't.
bphendri 2 years ago 2
Well, since the first iPod, dg0118.
Electronic parts are produced in Taiwan.
iPod cases & final assembly + packaging
are all done in China.
China offers the lowest manufacturing costs
comparing to anywhere else in the world.
But electronics are not done in China because
Apple's concerned, VERY MUCH concerned
about the QC which is way low standard over
there.
imprezaver4 2 years ago
cool, made in USA.
Does anybody know since when apple produce their products in china?
dgo0118 2 years ago
I think it was after they switched to intel, and now the quality is horrible. Not just the build quality, but now apple's computers are just poorly designed when it comes to cooling, durability, etc.
punkmonkey123 2 years ago
PowerPC Forever!
matthew376 2 years ago
Yep! I love my PPC mac, hate my MacBook.
punkmonkey123 2 years ago
Hey Al! if you ever need any parts for that cube google black hole.inc and trubo software they sell NeXt cubes displays and everything chech it out!
sirleebzxx25 2 years ago
this video PROVES it that MS stole the whole "task bar" idea becoz look how in this video the computer shows programs have been minimized........ the way windows 7 shows running programs at the bottom of the screen is almost identical to how the NeXT OS does it! u cant say Apple copied NeXT coz Apple PAID to use the NeXT OS...
aaroninclub 2 years ago
this sure does blow away windows 2.0!
aaroninclub 2 years ago
Are you kidding it even blows away Win 3.1 and 95.
Membrane556 2 years ago
yaaa i know! even the Mac OS was behind back then..
aaroninclub 2 years ago
that cube runs faster then my quad core machine :p
sirleebzxx25 2 years ago
and adiblasi's hands move faster then the cube.
kargaroc386 2 years ago
oh my! went to the shop back than at leidseplein (a'dam) asking 'for one of them doing three d'! - 'no do, get a windows' - no way!! i ended up with an apple. fuck! i have 2 cubes but still, i want a next! can't imagine where i would be today if i would have scored one. just amazing, a piece of art - ahead of time in so many ways. thank u 4 recording & posting
lewicked 2 years ago
most sounds are from mac osx!
weinerschnitzelboy 2 years ago
dont you mean most mac sounds are from NeXt !
fairyheli2 2 years ago 4
tru
aaroninclub 2 years ago
Wait a minute, NeXt had a word processor called Pages??? Wow, NeXt step definitely lives on.
l21logan99 2 years ago
Pages wasn't a NeXT product. Pages, Inc. developed Pages and later, Web Pages on NeXTSTEP. When they went out of business, the name was available. so Apple's iWork group used it.
-jcr
NSResponder 2 years ago
moteroler
kargaroc386 2 years ago
Motorola 68x Rulez
cybercow222 2 years ago 13
Who Thumbed-down this guy?
in my opinion, both the x86 and the 680x0 both have their advantages.
Mac and PC: i like 'em both equally. I'm not taking sides :D
poopskinTheLiar 2 years ago
Im siding with Macs being the best, even though im stuck with a Windows Cripsta OS
One3teen 2 years ago
i like Macs and PCs equally. funny how people complain about vista, and yet now that i've tried it i'm satisfied. Of course, my new computer is having some minor PSU issues, but i really can't blame that on windows when it's a hardware problem.
poopskinTheLiar 2 years ago
Its not horrific like people say, but ive used both Vista and OSX and i prefer OSX. But there both good os's
One3teen 2 years ago
Well, i am looking for a G3 iBook (and a G3 iMac in matching colors). After all, Low End Mac says they make great 'On-The-Road' machines, plus it supports Wi-Fi and i can do any intensive tasks i need to do on my main windows machine.
poopskinTheLiar 2 years ago
WRONG: its not cripsta; it's Crapista
:)
Deersindal 2 years ago
lol
aaroninclub 2 years ago
I'm on NeXTStep.. RIGHT... NOW...
ORUPRANKSTAZ 2 years ago
NeXTSTEP is a great OS
geomazo 2 years ago
openstep dosn't have fancy puffs of smoke when you drag an item off the dock? well, that was in OS X anyway...great job though, it's sad to hear that lots of NeXT computers were burned/destroied, huh?
linuxlove4004 2 years ago
if you change your shutter speed to a multiple of 30 you should get rid of the flicker... you may also need to set your display refresh rate to be 60Hz.
donkeybasketball 2 years ago
u shoul hook it to lan and see wht i dose
andmcl1993 3 years ago
A FF-Class video, and a FF-Class (for it's time, and for collectors) computer.
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago
good job al! keep it up
dazziola 3 years ago 2
Nice job. You really seem to enjoy making these videos. I've always been curious about NeXT machines and wanted to know more about them, and I found this to be a very informative and historical summary and demonstration of this system.
Thanks! Keep up the good work.
msdos622wasfun 3 years ago 3
nope, lisa came out 1983, NeXT didn't even exist back then (I think the Cube came in 1989)
metasuperhyper 3 years ago
whoops, probably just confused it with the Mac...
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago
Al,
all you needed to do to color an object was drag the color from the color well (the thing with the color preview)
it's the same in OS X
choasruler5151 3 years ago
Damn I wish I had a NeXT cube to go along with my iMac G3. That would be so cool.
WB2Colorado 3 years ago
You can see that Steve took part in that OSs! ^^ Nice review Alfred. C U
friedrichsacher 3 years ago
A lot of old id Software games were made on NeXT including Commander Keen, Wolfenstien, and Doom.
Spoothead12 3 years ago
Power Cube LOL...
UltimateSign 3 years ago
What camera did you use for this?
TechTimeTelevision 3 years ago
No, this came out in the early '90s. the Lis-er is from '84.
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago
poopskin, Lisa is from 1983. Macintosh is 84.
FutureiMacuser 3 years ago
I want one of those.
jacobdallen 3 years ago
On the back is that a SmartBoard?
we've got them on school.
tmasteryifu 3 years ago
ME 2
Chris534xrs 3 years ago
Hi - no, just a regular white board.
adiblasi 3 years ago