Category Archives: NeXT

BBSing on a Virtual NeXT Cube, Thanks to “Previous 2.0”

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Blake Patterson

I’ve been having a lot of fun lately spending time BBSing with many of my vintage systems. One of the systems in my collection that I have not yet used to login is my NeXTstation Turbo Color slab. Its a … Continue reading →

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Tapping the HP-9000 Gecko for “Not x86 Week”

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Blake Patterson

This past week was “Not x86 Week” over at r/Retrobattlestations and I decided to stand the HP-9000 712/100 “Gecko” RISC workstation out front for my entry. I happened upon a boot sale one weekend back in 2003 and spotted an HP-9000 712/60 … Continue reading →

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A Little App Called ‘FlyLab’ Running on My NeXTstation

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Blake Patterson

Last week was Back To School Week at r/Retrobattlestations. The challenge was to photograph your vintage computer running an educational program of some sort. For this one, a rather obscure little app that I ran across when first loading up … Continue reading →

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A Quick Tour of the HP-9000 712/100 NEXTSTEP Workstation

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Blake Patterson

February was NeXT Month over at r/Rerobattlestations. Being a huge NeXT fan, I was eager to take part in the event, which entailed taking a photo or video of a retro computer running NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP. While my first NEXTSTEP system was … Continue reading →

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NeXTstation Turbo Color Battery Swap

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Blake Patterson

I recently rearranged the computer room a bit to bring the NeXTstation Turbo Color (which I picked up from a refurb outfit in Frederick, MD back in 2000) to the fore, having spent a good bit of time with NEXTSTEP … Continue reading →

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Susan Kare’s EG 2014 Talk – I Spy Something Familiar…

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Blake Patterson

The other day I was listening to my favorite podcast, RetroMacCast, during lunch at my office desk (which is my routine) when John & John made me aware of a 20-minute presentation given at EG 2014 by legendary digital artist … Continue reading →

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A Song for Steve Jobs: “Vision in Black” by Nathan J. and The NeXTsteps

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Blake Patterson

At the risk of making this seem like the Blog of Amusing Computing Promos of Yesteryear, what with my recent posts, I wanted to share something I ran across the other day. That crazy HP Series 700 promo video I … Continue reading →

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On the Passing of a Visionary

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Blake Patterson

On October 5, now almost a month ago, Apple co-founder and CEO Steven Paul Jobs died of respiratory arrest resulting from a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. Of course, everyone reading this post is certainly already aware of it. Steve … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs: Like Comments On Life, Death and NeXT

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Blake Patterson

Today I heard the news, like everyone else, that Steve Jobs did not agree to surgery for nine months after learning that he had pancreatic cancer. That news sent me back into the cyclical “what if” thought patterns that I … Continue reading →

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NEXTSTEP…In My Pocket

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Blake Patterson

The moment I caught my first glimpse of the NeXT Cube and its revolutionary operating system, NEXTSTEP, I was spellbound. Never had a computing system been even vaguely as elegant as what lay before me back in 1989 on the … Continue reading →

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