Hello Hacker Community: I'm not sure exactly what I've stumbled into actually pointed at but I'm still reselling NeXT Hardware after 28 years. My first day wor

Hello Hacker Community: I'm not sure exactly what I've stumbled into actually pointed at but I'm still reselling NeXT Hardware after 28 years. My first day working for Alembic Systems selling NeXT Hardware, software and 3rd party products, NeXT shut down their hardware production line and layed off 400 people. So it began ..... what a long strange trip its been . I see my reputation proceeds me and I have a good one there and love my job. I am a one man shop these days for the most part and well you can see hundreds of NeXT projects I've worked on at youtube.com/robblessin , I'm compmuterpowwow on eBay and blackholeinc.com is my perpetual disaster of a website. When I started the website it was basically a very tiny web , as Sir Tim Berners Lee is one of my customers, I repaired his NeXT cube https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/08/10/steve-jobs-computer-cameos-at-the-london-olympics/?sh=1ced25cb631e https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/08/10/s... , a lot of war stories fairly sure between NeXT, Alembic and incarnations of leading to Black hole , we actually sold stuff on the Web when most people had no clue what it was lol. I we inadvertently invented spam , when we had the bright idea to send demos of the solid Thinking Modeler using NeXT mail to the University of Wisconsin and it replicated itself a whopping 3mb file bringing their 300 baud network down , oops . Not what we intended to have happen , however when the someone with a NeXT actually completed the download and figured out what it was they thought it was cool. Everything before then involved paper cuts stuffing envelopes with brochures, we evolved and set up a website with downloadable software links http://www.blackholeinc.com/catalog/index.shtml http://www.blackholeinc.com/catalog/index.shtml . I saw acomment below on the original optical drives , they were and are crap , I've had them actually catch fire from the laser igniting the dust lol , then they turned the cooling fan around not sure if it was an improvement. It is possible to repair them now .... the hardware improved and NeXT was the first company to distribute software on CDrom hence the Sony 1X drive , first computers with CD Quality sound card and 56001 DSP , you can even boot them up as a Mac running up to version 8.1 . When I Tunes crashed fortunately I had the web objects software they needed to update it ..... Sorry to crash the party with a rant but I'm mainly at NeXTcomputers.org or NeXT Computer Enthusiasts and have a lot of cool vintage hardware not just NeXT . Apologies for the rant. Best regards Rob Blessin