Archive for January 1988
Computer History 1988
Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, who left
Apple to form his own company, unveiled the NeXT. The computer he
created failed but was recognized as an important innovation. At a base
price of $6,500, the NeXT ran too slowly to be popular.The significance of the NeXT rested in its place as the first personal computer to incorporate a drive for an optical storage disk, a built-in digital signal processor that allowed voice recognition, and object-oriented languages to simplify programming. The NeXT offered Motorola 68030 microprocessors, 8 megabytes of RAM, and a 256-megabyte read/write optical disk storage.
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