21 December 2005, 23:11 by mark hoekstra

NeXT Fans Give Up the Ghost


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From one user group to another…

Few remember the NeXT Cube, and fewer ever used one. The machine was the first computer Jobs masterminded after his 1985 departure from Apple Computer; it was sexy and powerful but also expensive and proprietary, and in the four years NeXT made hardware, only about 50,000 Cubes sold.

The Bay Area NeXT Group, an important user group formed 15 years ago around Steve Jobs’ second great computer design, slipped into history in 2005.

NeXT Fans Give Up the Ghost

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