9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
2:11 p.m.
This may be apocryphal (I can't find a reliable
source on this now that I'm
trying to look it up), but one thing I recall is that Jobs' original vision
for the optical drive was that the Cube would have *no* internal storage
(save maybe a small hard disk for paging) and each user would have their own
optical disk that the system would boot from, containing the full OS, and
the user's applications and files. ?It's an interesting idea, in that a user
could carry his whole world around with him.
Yes, this matches what I have heard. Universities would have NeXTs in
the labs, and the students and researches would just have the disk in
their backpack.
?If I'm recalling correctly,
the original Cubes did ship in configurations meeting that vision, but the
drives were so slow and unreliable it didn't take long for that idea to be
dropped.
Yes, but it sort of tarnished the first impression.
--
Will