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From: pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT Religion
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Date: 25 Sep 90 01:55:13 GMT
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Remember alt.next?

Remember magnesium fire extinguishers?

We had our first contact with NeXT back in those days, before anyone knew
that the cube *was* a cube.  [We'd told NeXT we wanted to start a User's
Group for a non-existent machine -- they sent some heavies out to talk
with us!]

Anyway, here's a  comment from that original meeting you might find
interesting.  They were really interested in what the academic world
wanted in a workstation.  They were very open to any and all suggestions.
Lots of notes were taken by them and by us.  There was this warning, however:

	"There is only one religious issue at NeXT -- no floppy disk."

What happened?


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu		DoD 000006
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-737-3251