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My father was a lead in hardware engineering and manufacturing at NeXT. I have tons of footage of the amazing assembly technology that they used. I wonder if pe

My father was a lead in hardware engineering and manufacturing at NeXT. I have tons of footage of the amazing assembly technology that they used. I wonder if people would be interested in it. It was heavily top secret at the time, but NeXT built their own custom robotics system (called thor) and had all sorts of amazing in-house manufacturing tech that was incredibly automated. The hardware itself was just beautiful, too.

ch4ch4 10y ago
Please upload this somewhere!
redcalx 10y ago
> I wonder if people would be interested in it. YES!
grzm 10y ago
I wonder if people would be interested in it. Yes! I've seen stills. Seeing the assembly in motion would be great!
jdugan 10y ago
Yes, that would be amazing.
Gracana 10y ago
That would be great content for archive.org. Send Jason Scott a message, maybe they can help you digitize it.
javiramos 10y ago
OMG YES
raleighm 10y ago
Absolutely yes.
dba7dba 10y ago
Are you kidding me?? :) Please share it. Would be much appreciated.
rubicon33 10y ago
Yes! It would be so cool to see that.
gumby 10y ago
Computer history museum loves donations of this sort.
shakna 10y ago
> I wonder if people would be interested in it. > NeXT built their own custom robotics system (called thor) Thor! I remember reading a little bit about it, and finding it incredibly exciting, but finding anything from NeXT's projects that never quite went public has been really hard. This is a treasure trove.
nikki93 10y ago
Yes please!!!!!!!!!
mahrain 10y ago
There's an old video on Youtube called 'The Machine to build the Machines' which goes in-depth on their automated assembly line for mainboards. Could be a nice intro.
- wjbr 10y ago
  'The Machine to build the Machines' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT6aphdX0rI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT6aphdX0rI
dang 10y ago
Let's have a big thread about it on HN! Might your dad be available to participate?
mrkgnao 10y ago
Just in case you're counting replies, yes! Bring your dad too, it'd be an honor for a ton of people who haven't met anyone from that age, let alone had a parent with stories like that :)
glasz 10y ago
> I wonder if people would be interested in it. you serious? post them already!
krylon 10y ago
> I wonder if people would be interested in it. Yes, please! That sounds absolutely fascinating!
beautifulfreak 10y ago
The Computer History Museum would probably be interested in that too, as well as anything your dad has to say about it! http://www.computerhistory.org http://www.computerhistory.org
delinka 10y ago
I'd like to suggest having your dad and an Ars Technica journalist sit down for an interview. Get archive.org and Ars together to archive the footage and release a nice video edit in the article.
WillyOnWheels 10y ago
Inform your dad he is moving into the computer history museum.
maxharris 10y ago
Please, please, please post this somewhere!

ch4ch4 10y ago

Please upload this somewhere!

redcalx 10y ago

> I wonder if people would be interested in it. YES!

grzm 10y ago

I wonder if people would be interested in it. Yes! I've seen stills. Seeing the assembly in motion would be great!

jdugan 10y ago

Yes, that would be amazing.

Gracana 10y ago

That would be great content for archive.org. Send Jason Scott a message, maybe they can help you digitize it.

javiramos 10y ago

OMG YES

raleighm 10y ago

Absolutely yes.

dba7dba 10y ago

Are you kidding me?? :) Please share it. Would be much appreciated.

rubicon33 10y ago

Yes! It would be so cool to see that.

gumby 10y ago

Computer history museum loves donations of this sort.

shakna 10y ago

> I wonder if people would be interested in it. > NeXT built their own custom robotics system (called thor) Thor! I remember reading a little bit about it, and finding it incredibly exciting, but finding anything from NeXT's projects that never quite went public has been really hard. This is a treasure trove.

nikki93 10y ago

Yes please!!!!!!!!!

mahrain 10y ago

There's an old video on Youtube called 'The Machine to build the Machines' which goes in-depth on their automated assembly line for mainboards. Could be a nice intro.

wjbr 10y ago
'The Machine to build the Machines' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT6aphdX0rI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT6aphdX0rI

dang 10y ago

Let's have a big thread about it on HN! Might your dad be available to participate?

mrkgnao 10y ago

Just in case you're counting replies, yes! Bring your dad too, it'd be an honor for a ton of people who haven't met anyone from that age, let alone had a parent with stories like that :)

glasz 10y ago

> I wonder if people would be interested in it. you serious? post them already!

krylon 10y ago

> I wonder if people would be interested in it. Yes, please! That sounds absolutely fascinating!

beautifulfreak 10y ago

The Computer History Museum would probably be interested in that too, as well as anything your dad has to say about it! http://www.computerhistory.org http://www.computerhistory.org

delinka 10y ago

I'd like to suggest having your dad and an Ars Technica journalist sit down for an interview. Get archive.org and Ars together to archive the footage and release a nice video edit in the article.

WillyOnWheels 10y ago

Inform your dad he is moving into the computer history museum.

maxharris 10y ago

Please, please, please post this somewhere!