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Was the NeXT cube the first black PC? Here's a good look, for those of you who have never seen one: http://www.johnmiranda.com/next.htm http://www.johnmiranda.c
by cylinder714 9y ago
Was the NeXT cube the first black PC? Here's a good look, for those of you who have never seen one: http://www.johnmiranda.com/next.htm http://www.johnmiranda.com/next.htm
- tyingq 9y agoGRiD made black PC's before the NeXT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Systems_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Systems_Corporation There was also the Amstrad CPC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC And the Sinclair ZX81: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 And the Memotech MTX: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memotech_MTX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memotech_MTX PDP-11's were mostly black, but I suppose that doesn't count as a "PC".
- fit2rule 9y agoOric Atmos and Telestrat, also black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric
- walshemj 9y agoThere was also the black apple ][ by Bell and Howell
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- micheljones 9y agoCommodore Plus/4, C=16, C=116.
- tosh 9y agoThere was a black version of the Apple II for the education market (1979) http://oldcomputers.net/bellandhowell.html http://oldcomputers.net/bellandhowell.html
- jordanb 9y agoThe NeXT cube was a workstation, not a PC. The distinction is important, because workstations were office equipment and never consumer equipment. They had much fatter margins and a bigger industrial design budget. For instance, here's another workstation from the same era as the NeXT cube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indigo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indigo
- adrianratnapala 9y agoI wish we saw more of that bluish metal like in the SGI Indyigos or the classic netgear hubs & switches. We had some pizza-box style Indys in a computer lab when I was at uni. They were some of the prettiest computers I'd ever seen, even though they were just rectangles.
- cylinder714 9y agoI got one of those after my time at SCO, supporting Z-mail. It was quite an upgrade from Wyse 60s running at 9600 baud.