The machine Steve Jobs built after Apple fired him. A 68030 in a 12-inch magnesium cube, running NeXTSTEP — a UNIX-based operating system with a display server, object-oriented frameworks, and an interface so far ahead of its time that developers wept when Apple eventually shipped it as macOS. The $6,500 price kept it off most desks, but in universities and research labs it changed how software was written. Tim Berners-Lee used one to invent the World Wide Web.

• Replaced HDD with SSD — Jan 24, 2026
  Swapped from ZuluSCSI to BlueSCSI
• Logic Board Recap — Jan 24, 2026
  Full recap with OS-CON for the SMDs.

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