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You need to understand two things looking at that photo: - The pizza box design for workstations and servers was really hot in the 90s (btw the ones from NeXT s
by michaelpinto 15y ago
You need to understand two things looking at that photo:
- The pizza box design for workstations and servers was really hot in the 90s (btw the ones from NeXT starting the ball moving as I recall)
- I realize that looks like a pile of junk today but back in the day each of those machines was a small fortune (I'm guessing over $10k each)
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- evgen 15y agoThe sparc pizza box was first. The SS1 was coming out around the same time that NeXT was moving the cube from floptical-only to allowing a built-in hard drive.
- ajross 15y agoThe pizza box design is older than that. The Sun 3/50 and 3/60 from 1986 or so were the first I'm aware of. The Sparcstation design is a straightforward evolution. NeXT shipped cubes (without hard drives...) first in 1988. The NeXTstation pizza box wasn't until a later iteration in maybe 91 or so. And $10k is about right. You could pay less if you skimped on memory (I think most of the various workstations were around $6k for a minimal configuration), and much much more if you bought the fancy framebuffer cards.
- Bud 15y agoI still have my NeXTStation Turbo Color. Damn thing still runs, too. I run it a bit in the winter for amusement, and to help heat my apartment; I'm pretty sure it's more efficient at doing than than my electric wall heaters. Having this machine in 1996 on a 7Mbps DSL line made me feel like God. So, so far ahead of its time.
- ido 15y agoDSL in 1996??