NeXT Computer Accessory Kit: What You Got With a $10,000 Workstation 

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LOL! not ever day you get the bidding loser upvoting the guy who beat him.😂

What was your max bid?

This started as a blog/podcast, and I haven't been making actual video versions of the content until a few months ago, so I'm still new. I'll be the first to tell you I'm not a video person, despite helping invent video let's plays as we know them. :) So it's been a slow re-learning process. I would rather be writing or doing audio-only, but the reality is that the audience is on youtube, so I've accepted that fact and started working with it. I don't own a Lisa, and no BeBoxes either. But I've got more stuff coming down the pike soon.

He also (generally) knew what he was talking about. If you haven't seen that NeXT sales strategy video that was making the rounds a while back, it's a good watch.

@@userlandia Sure, he knew what he was talking about which kept people from bullshitting him. However I just.... How he treated Woz alone is reason enough for me to dislike the man. Disowning his daughter, and his infamous cornering people and firing them if he didn't like their answers?

You're not wrong, although he and his daughter did reconcile later in life. Steve Jobs was a jerk on an individual basis, he at least knew not to, you know, do what certain billionaires are doing these days.

@@userlandia This is VERY true. He viewed silence as a powerful tool. Vs the mess BirdSite is right now. Glad i left.

Thanks, Steve!

As far as I could tell music creators were the real killer app for the DSP, but I'd love to know of non-music uses for it in NeXTstep. NeXT's material always talked it up for non-sound uses, but actually finding use cases for it beyond audio seem extremely rare. Max is one of the apps I read about!

@@userlandia I think they used it for the Fax application, which was a cool feature back then.

I'm sure the folks over at nextcomputers.org would be interested!

@@userlandia Hugh, I tried searching for it, does not come up any more. I have on 1/4" tape or 8mm tape or maybe on cdrom. I'll have to dig it out and send to them. It basically uses the PS renderer of the system and sends hpgl standard raster to the printer stream.

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Sorry, but it's not for sale. Maybe someone over at the nextcomputers.com forum might be willing to part with one.

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The sticker stuck perfectly to my MBP with no issues. Maybe it won't stay as long as a fresh one but it's not like it's being subjected to the elements.

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NeXT was monochrome because they prioritized resolution over color. A decision that made sense if they hit their original 1987 ship date, but by the time they got to 1989, high resolution color was more affordable/feasible. But the hardware was baked in at that point... but color did come a year later with the NeXTstation Color and the NeXTDimension. Too little too late for them, though. RR Donnelly used to be one of my customers; I was in the raster image processing business for many years. I can tell you stories about rendering monster postscript files. :)

I didn't really get into how NeXT's competitors stacked up in a price comparison, but I always found it amusing that NeXT gets the bad rap for being too expensive when Sun, SGI, and my local team Apollo's workstations were more expensive. I could have easily made a ten minute detour about NeXT's initial pricing blunders and how they failed while those others succeeded. You probably know all this already but I figure a comments section is as good a place to go into a detour as any. :) I think it's because NeXT was trying to pitch itself to university staff and students, where it was legitimately expensive. Sun, SGI, and so on played in very high-end markets where their custom silicon was the real secret sauce. By that metric, the NeXT was a bargain for a UNIX workstation, especially if you could go without a printer. A base SparcStation in 1989 was what, about $9K list? Then you could option it up from there. $10K was the price when you bought a cube, display, and printer together at Businessland. Then, by the time you could actually buy a NeXT there was already an installed base of Sun, SGI, Apollo, and so on. But, IIRC, NeXT was the only one that attempted retail sales; any of the other workstations were sold via speciality sales channels where volume discounts and other special negotiations were in play. Buyers in those markets weren't necessarily interested in bargains either, they needed machines to solve specific problems and NeXT didn't really solve them... not out of the box, at least. Didn't matter if it cost less money if you couldn't run your 3D CAD software on them. NeXT solved _other_ problems, but odds are if someone was buying a Sun a NeXT wouldn't work for them. Anyway, thanks for watching!