building a PDP11 from the things you find at home

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat Jul 28 21:50:39 2001

> NeXT shipped *A LOT* of machines, man. Now, granted, nearly none of
>them went into households, but they installed (by practically giving
>them away) huge numbers of them in american colleges, and a large
>nameless US Gov't agency bought a VERY LARGE number of them.

        Most accounts I've seen place the total number of NeXT
machines made during the whole run at about 50,000. I do know that
the first NeXT I bought was surplus from the Naval Research Lab and
it wasn't but about 3 years old and it had already been sitting
around a bit when it was surplussed and put up for sale down in
Patuxent River.

> I'm definitely not trying to be a NeXT-tribesman here...but NeXT's
>products, and their relative success & failure, are some of the most
>misunderstood things in the workstation industry.

        Care to enlighten us a bit? <g>

        Jeff

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