Re: The Steve Jobs demo of NextSTEP

From	Joacim Melin <Joacim.Melin@f242.n221.z2.fidonet.fi>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.next.software
Subject	Re: The Steve Jobs demo of NextSTEP
Date	2020-02-27 17:41 +0200
Organization	rbb soupgate
Message-ID	<1582847104@f242.n221.z2.fidonet.fi> (permalink)
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 C> In article <1582308752@f242.n221.z2.fidonet.fi>,
 C>  Joacim Melin <Joacim.Melin@f242.n221.z2.fidonet.fi> wrote:

>> Hello,
>>
>> It seems like forever ago but it must have been 15 years I ran a website >> 
> called the NeXT Information Archive where I collected all kinds of files >> 
> lated to NeXT and NeXTSTEP. I scanned tons of material and others sent me >> 
> uff to. One of the things I was sent was a VHS tape in NTSC with Steve Job
 C> s
>> demonstrating NeXTSTEP, I think it was version 2.0. I did my best to 
> digitiz
 C> e
>> this video and put it on my website and eventually it found it's way to >> 
> Youtube (this one:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A. The "tracking..." message is 
> >> from
>> the Samsung VHS player I had at the time).
>>
>> Long story short - I still have the tape. I have no way to digitize it 
> since

>> I
>> don't have the hardware for it but it's a shame that it's just sitting here 
> >> when it can be put to better use.
>>
>> (It was NeXTSTEP 3.0, not 2.0. My bad.)
>>
>> I'm willing to send this to anyone who can digitize it properly and get it 
> >> online in the best possible quality.
>>
>> Get in touch if that's you. Email me at hi (a) joacim dot net.

 C> Well, I am gobsmacked - I remember NIA very well! It was pretty much
 C> the
 C> center of the NeXT hobbyist community in that time period - many
 C> thanks
 C> for running it! I'll have to fire up my '040 Cube and pull up the
 C> address from my OmniWeb bookmarks file...

 C> Was the peak.org NeXT archive still in existence at that time? And
 C> what
 C> do you think of the nextcomputers.org site (forums & files archive)?

The address back in the day was http://next.z80.org.  I later registered 
openstep.se and migrated the whole thing there but I gave up soon after since 
my home built webserver could'n cope with the load and the forum got hacked 
time and time again.  It was a very fun time.

Nextcomputers.org was actually based on my site. Lots of the files from my 
site is the files they offer there and I gave them everything to carry on 
running something for the NeXT community. I can't remember if they took over 
the forum too.  

This is what my site looked like back in the day: 

https://www.joacimmelin.se/projekt/Screen-Shot-2016-05-02-at-21.10.38.png

You can find it on Archive.org too: 

https://web.archive.org/web/20030608130931/http://next.z80.org/

When I ran the site we also did a magazine. One issue only since no one had 
time to carry on but it was fun: 

https://www.joacimmelin.se/projekt/nextzine.pdf

BR/

Joacim

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