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Sponsored by PCBWay: https://pcbway.com/g/ynWgss Step back into 1988 and 1990, straight into the world of NeXT, Steve Jobs’s most influential work after leaving Apple. We explore some of the history behind NeXT and the company’s ambitious attempt to redefine workstation computing. From the original black NeXT Cube to the later slab machines, from Canon’s investment to the object.station line, this episode connects the hardware, the software, and the legacy. On the bench, I open the NeXTstation for inspection, work through the NVRAM issues, and wrestle with SCSI quirks using ZuluSCSI and SCSI2SD before finally getting NeXTSTEP installed and running. NeXTSTEP was the OS that would years later become the foundation to Rhapsody, Mac OS X Server 1.0, and eventually, OS X (or macOS, as it's known today). This is part one of the story. Next Sunday we explore the NeXTSTEP desktop, the Workspace Manager, and the software ecosystem, including office tools, early web browsers, and of course DOOM, before taking a look at contemporary virtualization in part three. In this episode: 00:00 Intro 02:23 A Bumpy Start For NeXT, Inc. 04:40 1988: The NeXT Computer 06:08 1990: The NeXTstation & NeXTstation color 07:15 1993: NeXT Becomes A Software Company 07:31 Canon's object.station 08:02 NeXT's Multiplatform Strategy 08:19 NeXTstation color: Hardware Hands-on 11:32 Reconfiguring The NVRAM 12:21 Installing NeXTSTEP 3.3 14:41 Dealing With ZuluSCSI and SCSI2SD 18:19 Hardware Mod: HD Activity LED 18:43 Conclusion 19:34 Next Episode Preview: Exploring NeXTSTEP 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! Want to join THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS or THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS community and get a mention in an upcoming video? Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz Christian Zerrahn David Schell Waseem al sammane ZyeByteVT THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: Balint Szy Brian Repinski CaffeinePizza Cecil Cinemint Music Clank Elinars Feldi GrayT! heyday478 Jack Beckman Jack Rosenthal John DiLiberto Luke Granger-Brown Matthew Veety Mlok Karel MS-DOS Manfred Steven Glogger Thorstens Time Capsule Tim Hull Wobinu Films xcalibur839 Z098 Zen the Fox Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. This presentation, Copyright @ 2025 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see sources). Music composed by 🎶 Abdallah El-Ghannam https://www.youtube.com/@AcrossTheU.S.A | https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam 🎶 rootkitty | https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty ℹ️ Sources: NeXT history: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-24-fi-18710-story.html https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/19/business/apple-computer-entrepreneur-s-rise-and-fall.html https://www.oldsilicon.com/next-station-color https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP Apple lawsuit and settlement: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-18-fi-874-story.html https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/18/business/steven-jobs-settles-suit-filed-by-apple.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160503143909/https://www.tech-insider.org/mac/research/1986/0119.html https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/09/12/looking-back-at-steve-jobss-next-inc----the-most-successful-failure-ever Canon object.station: https://peterwong.net/blog/a-glimpse-of-the-canon-objectstation-41/ https://www.ithistory.org/db/hardware/canon-inc/canon-object-station Magnesium case insights: https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html NeXTSTEP 3.3: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/786-nextstep-3-3 SCSI and ROM monitor: https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/2018-09-19-nextstation-easy-scsi2sd-setup.html https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=3737.msg21502#msg21502 https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=3866.0 https://www.netbsd.org/ports/next68k/faq.html#boot-disk1 https://wiki.preterhuman.net/NeXT_ROM_Monitor_FAQ NeXTSTEP origins toward macOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/Introduction/Introduction.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_pinwheel 3D printed bracket for HD LED: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5942827