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Sad. It was noted early on that they would either be the last hardware startup to make it, or the first well-funded one to fail... Ages ago, I was using simil

Sad. It was noted early on that they would either be the last hardware startup to make it, or the first well-funded one to fail... Ages ago, I was using similarly spec'ed computers running Windows (ThinkPad 755c), Mac OS (Mac Quadra 950), and NeXTstep (25MHz '040 Cube)--- the Cube was by far the nicest and most stable and most capable --- fortunately, its legacy lives on in Mac OS since Apple's purchase of NeXT essentially resulted in NeXT taking over Apple (just we don't get the vertical menu, pop-up main menu, tear off sub-menus, Display PostScript, PANTONE colour license, nxhosting, or the "Unix expert" checkbox) --- really wish that the folks behind GNUstep and the various desktop projects would get more traction. Was lucky enough to score copies of Adobe Illustrator and Altsys Virtuoso, and I still have Macromedia Freehand set to open .vrt files (Freehand 4 ~= Virtuoso 2). Really miss Lotus Improv (I've never been able to convince an employer that it would be worth paying for me to have a license of Quantrix Financial Modeler), and WriteNow is still one of my favourite wordprocessors --- at least TeXshop was modeled on TeXview.app, and has many of the same capabilities and much the same feel --- for a long while, I was the only person in a Mac composition shop for whom it made sense to use Mac OS X, since I was using TeXshop, and it was more comfortable to me than TeXtures (I think the license I was using was serial #018).

twoodfin 1y ago
I dunno, it’s hard to be too sad. Turns out they really were inventing the future in that office, and the NeXT Cube has a better case for being the progenitor of the billions of slabs of glass, metal, and silicon that changed the world than any other computer.
- WillAdams 1y ago
  I am sad because: - I have to use a Windows computer to run Macromedia Freehand, the Affinity Design folks bailed on doing a full clone (and I dread their 30 Oct announcement which will probably be for a subscription model), the Quasado folks are now doing GraviT over on the Chrome store, and I haven't found a vector drawing program for Mac OS which I like which supports Services - Lotus Improv 2.0 was for Windows --- there is no multi-dimensional spreadsheet like to it for Mac OS --- closest thing I've found is pyspread, unless someone can get Flexisheet running, Numbers.app is painfully 2D last I checked - Services are woefully under-represented, really miss little apps such as poste.app (envelope printing), and sbook.app and Millenium's Notebook.app - I have to dig out a Raspberry Pi to run Mathematica - I miss writing PostScript strokes and fills and seeing them on-screen - my Wacom One quit working with my MacBook --- that never happened w/ my Wacom ArtZ attached to my NeXT Cube Yes, I'm glad to have TeXshop.app, but these days I mostly just do Literate Programming in TeXstudio, which is painfully cross-platform. My next project is to do a Cyberdeck using an rPi 5 and a Wacom Movink --- we'll have to see how that turns out.
apple4ever 1y ago
> really wish that the folks behind GNUstep and the various desktop projects would get more traction. Me too, but they are so stuck in their ways.

twoodfin 1y ago

I dunno, it’s hard to be too sad. Turns out they really were inventing the future in that office, and the NeXT Cube has a better case for being the progenitor of the billions of slabs of glass, metal, and silicon that changed the world than any other computer.

WillAdams 1y ago
I am sad because: - I have to use a Windows computer to run Macromedia Freehand, the Affinity Design folks bailed on doing a full clone (and I dread their 30 Oct announcement which will probably be for a subscription model), the Quasado folks are now doing GraviT over on the Chrome store, and I haven't found a vector drawing program for Mac OS which I like which supports Services - Lotus Improv 2.0 was for Windows --- there is no multi-dimensional spreadsheet like to it for Mac OS --- closest thing I've found is pyspread, unless someone can get Flexisheet running, Numbers.app is painfully 2D last I checked - Services are woefully under-represented, really miss little apps such as poste.app (envelope printing), and sbook.app and Millenium's Notebook.app - I have to dig out a Raspberry Pi to run Mathematica - I miss writing PostScript strokes and fills and seeing them on-screen - my Wacom One quit working with my MacBook --- that never happened w/ my Wacom ArtZ attached to my NeXT Cube Yes, I'm glad to have TeXshop.app, but these days I mostly just do Literate Programming in TeXstudio, which is painfully cross-platform. My next project is to do a Cyberdeck using an rPi 5 and a Wacom Movink --- we'll have to see how that turns out.

apple4ever 1y ago

> really wish that the folks behind GNUstep and the various desktop projects would get more traction. Me too, but they are so stuck in their ways.