The Beige Box Fades to Black (2002)

Re:The Beige Box Fades to Black (2002) by jordanb on Sunday September 17, 2017 @03:07PM (#15271161)

The NeXT cube was a workstation, not a PC.

The distinction is important, because workstations were office equipment and never consumer equipment. They had much fatter margins and a bigger industrial design budget.

For instance, here's another workstation from the same era as the NeXT cube:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indigo

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Re:The Beige Box Fades to Black (2002) by adrianratnapala on Sunday September 17, 2017 @07:20PM (#15272261)

I wish we saw more of that bluish metal like in the SGI Indyigos or the classic netgear hubs & switches.

We had some pizza-box style Indys in a computer lab when I was at uni. They were some of the prettiest computers I'd ever seen, even though they were just rectangles.

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Re:The Beige Box Fades to Black (2002) by cylinder714 on Sunday September 17, 2017 @09:01PM (#15272653)

I got one of those after my time at SCO, supporting Z-mail. It was quite an upgrade from Wyse 60s running at 9600 baud.

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