NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened

Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by KirinDave on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @06:35PM (#13603268)

My father was a lead in hardware engineering and manufacturing at NeXT. I have tons of footage of the amazing assembly technology that they used. I wonder if people would be interested in it.

It was heavily top secret at the time, but NeXT built their own custom robotics system (called thor) and had all sorts of amazing in-house manufacturing tech that was incredibly automated. The hardware itself was just beautiful, too.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by Gracana on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:02PM (#13603426)

That would be great content for archive.org. Send Jason Scott a message, maybe they can help you digitize it.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by delinka on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:57AM (#13607326)

I'd like to suggest having your dad and an Ars Technica journalist sit down for an interview. Get archive.org and Ars together to archive the footage and release a nice video edit in the article.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by dang on Thursday February 09, 2017 @01:59AM (#13605201)

Let's have a big thread about it on HN! Might your dad be available to participate?

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by shakna on Thursday February 09, 2017 @12:03AM (#13604798)

> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

> NeXT built their own custom robotics system (called thor)

Thor! I remember reading a little bit about it, and finding it incredibly exciting, but finding anything from NeXT's projects that never quite went public has been really hard.

This is a treasure trove.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by krylon on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:40AM (#13606485)

> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

Yes, please! That sounds absolutely fascinating!

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by redcalx on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @06:39PM (#13603285)

> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

YES!

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by mrkgnao on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:37AM (#13606210)

Just in case you're counting replies, yes! Bring your dad too, it'd be an honor for a ton of people who haven't met anyone from that age, let alone had a parent with stories like that :)

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by mahrain on Thursday February 09, 2017 @12:55AM (#13604987)

There's an old video on Youtube called 'The Machine to build the Machines' which goes in-depth on their automated assembly line for mainboards. Could be a nice intro.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by wjbr on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:45AM (#13605355)

'The Machine to build the Machines' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT6aphdX0rI

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by glasz on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:26AM (#13606417)

> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

you serious? post them already!

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by beautifulfreak on Thursday February 09, 2017 @08:12AM (#13606632)

The Computer History Museum would probably be interested in that too, as well as anything your dad has to say about it! http://www.computerhistory.org

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by grzm on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @06:41PM (#13603290)

I wonder if people would be interested in it.

Yes! I've seen stills. Seeing the assembly in motion would be great!

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by ch4ch4 on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:22PM (#13603532)

Please upload this somewhere!

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by WillyOnWheels on Thursday February 09, 2017 @10:23AM (#13607511)

Inform your dad he is moving into the computer history museum.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by gumby on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @10:35PM (#13604467)

Computer history museum loves donations of this sort.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by dba7dba on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:39PM (#13603605)

Are you kidding me?? :)

Please share it. Would be much appreciated.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by maxharris on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:52PM (#13611355)

Please, please, please post this somewhere!

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by jdugan on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @06:45PM (#13603317)

Yes, that would be amazing.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by nikki93 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @12:18AM (#13604852)

Yes please!!!!!!!!!

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by raleighm on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:19PM (#13603520)

Absolutely yes.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by rubicon33 on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @10:14PM (#13604354)

Yes! It would be so cool to see that.

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Re:NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened by javiramos on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:04PM (#13603442)

OMG YES

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