Re:Computers

["B. Esser" <besser@marian.creighton.edu>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Robert Estes wrote:

> Nope, they were toying with buying Be. The DID buy NeXT: lock, stock, and
> barrel. It will be the next OS with MacOS system 7 running as a separate
> application within it to keep legacy applications alive. Steve Jobs is 
> back at Apple and a number of NeXT folks have taken positions of important
> responsibility with Apple. Where were you? You missed the Revolution. It
> was even televised. Well, all over the net.

I even drug my NeXT cube (yes the hardware came in a cube shape) out of my
closet.    Randy Hoffman  was the engineer who put
together the Next assembly line.  It was tres cool.  Robots for quality
control, the actual line only had a couple of workers.  It was written up
in Forbes as the state of the art assembly line.  When I was on the floor
it was strange.  Very quiet.  Very efficient.  Almost surreal.  
Of course the components assembled by the bots could not be easily fit
into the cube (the cube has an open back but no other seams were allowed.
Unlike today's machines where the components can be put in from the side
or top everything had to be slid in the back.  So in the next room were
bunches of people slamming the bot created components into the cube.  

Bruce Esser
Physics Teacher                    Something witty
Marian High School                     Should go here
http://marian.creighton.edu