Re:NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation
by angrygoat on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:14AM
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We had one of the pizza box NeXTstations at the UCC[0], at the University of Western Australia, and at one point we also had an IBM workstation (from memory it was PowerPC?) running OpenSTEP. That was in the late 90s/early 2000s.
At that stage there was lots of interesting hardware for us to collect; we had a BeBox, three SGI workstations including an O2, an Alpha workstation and a couple of Alpha based servers.
I dropped in at the UCC not that long ago and sadly, the days of cool interesting workstations seem to be over. It's just PCs now. I guess the energy of design and innovation isn't focused on the desktop anymore, but those days were really cool :)
At that stage there was lots of interesting hardware for us to collect; we had a BeBox, three SGI workstations including an O2, an Alpha workstation and a couple of Alpha based servers.
I dropped in at the UCC not that long ago and sadly, the days of cool interesting workstations seem to be over. It's just PCs now. I guess the energy of design and innovation isn't focused on the desktop anymore, but those days were really cool :)
[0] https://ucc.asn.au