[Labs] Upgrading my NeXT Computers!
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Today on Macintosh Librarian Labs, Ms Fox introduces the NeXT Library Annex!
We will be installing two BlueSCSIs in a NeXT Computer (Cube) and a NeXT Color Station!
Enjoy this unscripted episode !
Also there is a small cameo by @ActionRetro ! Thanks for including me in your most recent video.
Check out ActionRetro's NeXT SCSI2SD episode here:
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I worked in a computer lab in the 90s with about 20 NeXT machines. They were beautiful.
I am so jealous you got to see them in action !
@@MacintoshLibrarian It was great. We had about 18 greyscale NeXTstation slab units and two color units. They were bridged (Ethernet-to-AppleTalk) with the other half of the room of about 30 Macs (mostly IIsi and a few SE/30s). Mathematica was a big part of it. At one point we ran out of Macs for an MS Word (5.1!!) class and we were able to run Word on the NeXT machines from the hard drives of the Macs across the room.
Good times.
I like the vibes I get from your content, very similar to Clint from LGR. Wholesome and informative at the same time.
i was thinking about who did she remind me of, you're right this has that same vibes of wholesome nerdy stuff
We need a female LGR lol
I wonder if they are both single.
Love these videos, good to see another woman in too what I am ! ❤️❤️
Yes! Thank you!
Nothing against all the great guys doing vintage computer videos, but it is refreshing to see a lady into this!
*into
Thanks for showcasing the BlueSCSI! Always fun to see it used to give new life to vintage computers!
This is great! love videos where people upgrade Next machines! never thought someone would! Thank you.
I've always primarily been a Windows user, but I've equally always been interested in the history of all computer technology so this was really fun to watch! You're a great host and I learned some really cool new things. Also the quality of the videos themselves is great & you present the information in a really clear manner which helps a lot! Can't wait to watch more!
Two NeXT videos in my feed in one week! Awesome! As I commented on Action Retro’s video, I started my IT career on NeXT computers. I’d love to have one in my collection again someday.
That had to be awesome! I hope you can get one.
not only is this cool, but I love that you're preserving history. there cant be many complete working NeXT machines these days
Return of the Mac playing at the end is a sweet touch 😊
As a kid I remember reading about the NeXT computers and thinking they were really interesting, but never having the chance to see what they were like to use. Thank you for bringing this amazing old hardware back to life!
Really great to see this. I work in IT and I can't imagine working with devices this old, but I also appreciate the preservation of history. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have an irrational fondness for NeXT computers, especially the slabs. In 1993 at university, I was blown away by the high resolution graphics they could display. I never quite mastered using them for anything other than email but I was using them on short time in a computer lab so didn't have much time to poke around them and wouldn't have known what I was doing since I was only used to DOS in those days.
I remember 1998 installed next computers at William Morris in Beverly Hills. I remember running. Rg57 cable which was either net cable at the time. The next system was ahead of its time. Well, great show. Downey California ❤❤❤❤
I just discovered your channel via a shoutout from Action Retro. This was great! Subscribed.
Welcome aboard!
First time viewer. You look like a real-life Velma, dude. That's pretty cool. Oldest mac I've ever owned is the 2006 Mac Pro and used it from 2015 to 2017 as my main PC, then gave it away to a Mac collector friend.
The NeXT computers were so advanced for the time with an amazing GUI running on UNIX. HP-UX and Solaris didn’t come close. I was fortunate to be able to take math in college using a curriculum designed specifically around running Mathematica on a lab full of NeXTs.
the real Velma.
Funny you mentioned getting memes via fax, in the mid 90s we signed up with the local paper to get a weekly fax of a recipe cards that were featured in Sunday food section.
This just made my Sunday so much better!
Ms. Fox made me a believer in the Blue SCSI in a previous video, I love that I can take a copy of the drive and work on it in an emulator and make a backup copy or change the SCSI ID, so easy!
Maccy is such a dear sitting quietly and watching time around. Love the channel.
Here from Action Retro’s recommendation. Happy to subscribe and ring the bell!! 🤓
Awesome! Thank you! Action retro is a cool guy!
Ohhhh this video is incredible, amazing preservation and presentation!!
I just resurrected the monochrome monitor for my dad's next slab which he used to use as his work computer a long time ago! Sadly the drive is not really working so the scsi conversion you showed is a must and you do a great job showing how to do this! If you have not recapped your monitor I recommend doing so at some point since our monitor was completely dead, my dad thought the picture tube was gone but after experiencing the same symptoms before with other CRT monitors started pulling caps and almost all of them had extremely high ESR values... After changing them all the monitor came right on and the picture was perfect! xD
We used NeXT machines for programming and Mathematica my freshman year in college! 1992. Mathematica would hang up if you divided by 0. Literally didn't have a special case written into it to tell you not to do that. But you could "Kill The Kernel" and after 2 or 3 minutes you could relaunch a program! Woohoo! Also, Doom.
Great channel! You’re so classy and charming, plus you really know your stuff. The editing is top notch, too.
Great video! This is inspiring me to try to put a BlueSCSI in my VAXstation!
The cube earrings for the win!
Boy you would think that Maxtor held Terabytes of data! Amazing how technology has advanced.
Side bit of history. The NeXT Cube was the sexiest computer around in its day. Everybody wanted one. In 1989, a gentleman named Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT computer to create what many people still mistakenly believe is the Internet. He created the World Wide Web. The Internet itself existed long before the web. The web was just a new client-server protocol developed by Berners-Lee.
"...Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989 and his second proposal in May 1990. Together with Belgian systems engineer Robert Cailliau, this was formalised as a management proposal in November 1990. This outlined the principal concepts and it defined important terms behind the Web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”.By the end of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee had the first Web server and browser up and running at CERN, demonstrating his ideas. He developed the code for his Web server on a NeXT computer. To prevent it being accidentally switched off, the computer had a hand-written label in red ink: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"
Much computer history is connected directly or indirectly to Steve Jobs.
Full story here: home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-web
Great video as always and thanks for the shoutout! Glad my old SCSI setup shenanigans turned out to be useful for both you and Action Retro - I'm glad I put it out there now 😁
Thanks for the tips! You are top result for NeXT SCSI2SD :)
Absolutely amazing collection of machines you’ve got there. Soo jealous. :)
Love your channel. like the content and your interesting work! I have owned 1 Mac, 20 yrs ago,..but have not been a Apple guy,..but a Mac SE made a big impact on me in the mid 90' s and recently i was 3D printing a Apple IIe that came out really nice with a Rpi 4 inside,..and then i found your channel and Mini Mac SE and then i got to learning much about the history about Mac/Apple,...
Wow, it’s really cool how the computer and the I/O ports connected with each other. Thanks for making this video; I appreciate you!
Nice! Glad you're bringing this to your channel.
When I was in college, we went to BusinessLand to check 'em out... but Apollo, Solbourne, etc. were better deals. The department ended up going with the "safer" A/UX option on a Mac IIfx!
Oh wow! That would have been awesome to see!
Great video Macintosh Librarian! Super cool to see. Thank you and hope you are feeling better from being sick.
Love how animated Maccy is even when all he can really do is watch. Figured Gessey would've been more involved givne she's the NeXT handy helper.
This channel is a real treat in spite of my less than enthusiastic view of Jobs. Thank you for the time taken for the content.
Since you already have a soldering iron, you can buy heatset brass inserts for adding machine threads to your 3DP parts. Use the tip to heat the insert and push it into the hole on the part. Nice video!
Awesome! you could be the Woz's niece. :) Any plans to showcase NeXTStep on HP-UX, OpenStep, BeOS(ZetaOS & Haiku)?
😃Yay! So thankful for things like BlueSCSI, which allow us to keep old hardware like this running!
Nice video, those are some legendary machines! (love the cube earrings)
super cool. My first computer was the Macintosh Plus and I wanted to own a NeXT so bad. I was a teen growing up in Puerto Rico when I visited the only NeXT dealer/rep in the island. As usual, pp looked at me like an alien when I inquired about geeky stuff lol
FYI: Those SCSI drives made a lot of noise when they were new. I loved it actually. NeXT was a blast. I was in sales and could put together UNREAL presentations with my NeXT. Never forget attaching a doc to email too. What a rush.
Got this video recommended on the front page, even haven’t watched Next stuff in a while!
Really cool video! I love seeing old machines like this retrofitted with modern tech. Also love the yellow Yeti mug. Mine is I think light blue
I have sadly very little interest in Macintosh and NeXT computers generally, but the narration and production quality of this video just reeled me in. Thank you for documenting and preserving!
Glad you enjoyed it! 🎣
This video is quite cozy! Grateful the algorithm recommended this!
I think you're getting blessed by the algorithm; RUclips recommended me your content, and I have to say these videos are just awesome. Here's hoping you get more subscribers!
This video makes me so happy. I still have my ADB Turbo Colorstation from back in the day. You know the HP 9000 712/100 ran NS 3.3 like gangbusters. I am pretty sure that you can buy 712's by the pallet for not a lot of money. :)
I bought a 712 in 1997 for about $300 including monitor and cd drive. I can only imagine how cheap they are now.
They were shockingly good workstations, as I recall. I like the foam mounting hardware. :)
My high school had a next cube as a server to the mac side of the network lol. Action retro sent me your way. I must say I enjoyed the content and we'll be diving into more of it later on 😃😃😃
Welcome aboard! ActionRetro is a cool cat
Great video!! So many people don’t know the history of NeXT and it’s nice to see this. 🎉
You induce nostalgia in me for a period I wasn't born in time to witness.
Love your collection, and I admire your soldering skills, btw love the cube earrings! :D
Always wanted a NeXT Cube
SUZIE FROM STRANGER THINGS ALL GROWN UP!
I have a crush on Ms. Fox like a substitute teacher😍
First timing seeing this channel. Really cool, like everything I'm into right here
I'm absolutely shocked that the old _Maxtor_ hard drive booted up so you could retrieve the files! I hadn't heard of BlueSCSI before this video, it makes me want to dig through the old _Amiga_ hardware that I've got in the garage and see if I can get one of them running.
Thanks for a very fun video!
Imaging some NeXT engineer coding five dancing skeletons around Halloween when they were supposed to be working
I forgot about SCSI. The pronunciation was always so funny.
I used to have and LOVED my NeXT computer. I love this channel as I am a tech nerd myself and I love stuff like this. Excellent work on converting these systems. I love people sharing good info for old tech. Your video has inspired me to convert my old Win 9x machines over.
memories come flooding back. NeXT, most stable system I have ever used
Thank you for sharing this awesome project! I love seeing old computers like these still bringing happiness to people today. I also love seeing people getting into DIY tinkering and learning skills that can come in handy! I would love to learn to solder like you some day! Keep it up!
Super envious, but really happy to see these awesome (and rare) machines in good hands and, most importantly, being used!
It is always very important to back up your data! 💾
Ah, man. This is great. Easy to find content about old IBMs, but growing up with both in the house it's so good to revisit the 'other side.'
Glad you enjoyed it!
I know this might sound odd and pandering in some way, but I'm super stoked seeing a woman like me talk so passionately about retro computers! They seem rare in the retro computing space on RUclips, I only know of the host of Nibble and Bytes who covers the C128.
I've never really taken a look at NeXT computers so this was such a pleasant informative video. Thank you! Subbed.
after playing BackfireWall_ that little Macintosh face hits different, Yay you for saving it :D
stumbled on to this channel guess casue i was doing research on buying a new laptop. what a cool nostalgic channel for me. i remeber working on this types of systems back when i was in high school in the mid 90s and in college in the late 90s. love the low fi filing and that outro song Return of the Mac midi made click subscribe!
Hah! I member those SCSI Seagate Harddisks, impossible to forget in fact. There was one of those with 512Mb back in the day running on a CNC server, the thing was dying and I had to replace it, it sounded like a lawnmower running! But guess what? Unlike any order harddisk in such conditions I was able to read every single last bit of information from the disk and get the data on a new disk , it took an eternity as the disk was running slower than a floppy when it came to read speeds but it WORKED which is what mattered! (that one had a few years by the time this had to be done, meaning the new SCSI disk was much thinner and faster).
Had this been an IDE disk of the same era there is not a chance in hell that I would had been able to read anything of it, much less save the whole contents of the disk, without having sent that disk for a data recovery speciality service or the manufacturer itself, which would have costed the price of 100 harddisks and taken even longer than it took to copy the data out of it as is!
Ever since that day my respect for Enterprise Class Devices (SAS nowadays) was been untarnished and much increased!
I love everything about you and your channel. Please keep up to awesome work! ❤
I am your newest fanboy. Your content is great and you’re a lovely lady ❤
Thank you so much!!
Awesome video. So glad I found your channel!
I had a NeXT Turbo Slab that I bought from a local college when they got rid of them. Its hostname was 'trout' and I paid $35 in ~2000. I no longer own trout, I gave it to a friend and don't know where it is today.
First time viewer here. Loved the video! I first heard about you from Action Retro; you referenced each other in your recent videos. I'm really appreciating your knowledge of NeXT (and presumably Macs, but I haven't watched any of your Mac videos yet), and you certainly could teach me a thing or five about soldering.
How appropriate that as soon as you get it working you start playing Doom, because that's exactly what we all did, every day, back in the 90s.
The performance was pretty lackluster IMHO
"Next to this stack of Mac Effects cases that I have not opened yet" - I see you, the struggle of the manifold of videos to be but are not yet here (I have 10 planned)! I don't know much about NeXT so I'm glad you're covering it.
Thank you! I've enjoyed your videos for a while. They always make me laugh and help me get through the day. I'm so glad I found your channel and can't wait to see what else you come up with. Thank you for the entertainment! They've always been entertaining and informative. Thanks for taking the time to create them. Your content was great! RUclips would be filled with you doing amazing things and teaching me about old Macs. In addition, you would teach me other stuff about Apple by being open and honest and laughing as I listen to Maccy. I am now a subscriber. Give me more! I'm sure Maccy would be proud of me, since I've become an official subscriber!
Now you have done it, I will have to drag out my Next Cube and Slab, and all the other gear and set it up and getting working. Thanks for the inspiration. I am 73 and started my career on a Honeywell DPS6, glad to see a young women showing how it is done.
WOW beautiful!!!! I love your little annex! Cheers and hopefully it becomes a full wing!
Ok that’s a really great collection of NeXT ad materials and computers.
I remember the magazine review of the first NeXT Cube. It first complained about the shockingly high price for a BLACK and WHITE computer. "Why does Steve Jobs always want us to buy a Black and White computer? Does he watch black and white TV at home?"
Bought 3 Turbo Color slabs off FleaBay in the late 90s. None came with memory or hard drives. All had been removed (in order for the data contained therein to be destroyed I would presume). I managed to resurrect one of them to use as a Unix playground / conversation piece. I’ve always feared to 7200 RPM HD (that sounds like a jet turbine) could bite the dust at any minute. So, it’s fantastic to see someone presenting cost effective ways to keep these old systems that were so revolutionary for their time alive and running for younger generations to enjoy.
I used to use NeXT software and hardware at work. I had business cards for the engineers and used to call them on the phone for support and they would answer. Best support ever. One piece of NeXT hardware I rarely see is the large greyscale CRT. We used it for previewing PostScript files, we had some machines that only did this for their entire lives. The video cards were also very expensive, I remember we had video cards for the cube that cost more than the cube. Later they switched to Siemens hardware then to Sun hardware. We dealt with files that no Mac at the time could open.
I guess the NeXT step for you is to populate all the slots in the cube.
That was a good video. I didn't know you could update the hardware and the old machines.
I just randomly got your channel recommended and I am blown away by the production quality and all this amazing retro tech! May I ask what got you interested in this specific topic/field?
These are very helpful videos and suggestions! I really need to update the storage devices in my retro computers.
Glad it was helpful!
I don't subscribe to many channels (3 in total), but I immediately subscribed to this one. Ms. Fox is awesome and the channel is a lot of fun to watch. Thank you so much!
I appreciate that!
Wow, this brings back memories. I almost bought a cube at Northeastern around 1990... but the price! Spent half a decade at Apple, loved every minute. FYI: Steve Jobs is nowhere near as scary as the stories make him.
+1 for the cube earrings :)
Great video! And I enjoyed the pun with the outro song!
The difference in physical size, capacity and performance of the old hard drive and the new SD card is just staggering.
I did what I said below this morning, pulled out the cube and slab, figured out how to connect the cube and crank it up. To my amazement it came up after the slowest boot I have seen in a long time. I think the last time I booted the NeXT was about 1992. It is all good so far except it now asking for a Name and PW. This may be fun. I did email my son with a screenshot attached, btw who has a Masters in Computer Science and asked him " the last time the NeXT was booted was before you were born, can you help"
Awesome, thank you! Last time I booted my NeXT a couple of years ago the HD didn't seem very happy. Been wanting to get it back out and this is a great option. My soldering is primarily limited to electric instruments but your detail and links perhaps I can pull it off! Wonderful video!
Lovely video! ...and NEXTCUBE Earrings!!
Awesome video and love the NeXT Computers earrings nice touch.
I love how you say it was the CompUSA of the day like people know what that is. ; )
I was in college when they first came out. They were trying to sell them through the school for 4-10k depending on the model. For reference, the in state tuition I was paying was about 2k/year. They were cool but I didn’t know anyone that could afford one.
This is so amazingly nerdy, I love it :)
Can't believe I hadn't already come across this channel, this is great! Subbed!
Ooh so a SD-to-SCSI blue pill based adapter is a thing? Time to bring back my NeXTstation from the attic where it’s been sleeping for the past 25 years! 😝
I saw this video when released , and until now I noticed the NeXT cube hoops earrings