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And, all that technology that I started learning when I bought my $11,000 NeXT cube in Indiana in 1988 now runs on my phone. And my watch! On my wrist. Objective-C runs on my wrist today. Crazy.

Fantastic article. Can't believe it's been a quarter century already!

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Setting NeXT cubes on fire was totally a thing I'll never forget. They were made out of Magnesium and burnt wonderfully[0].

[0] -- https://youtu.be/pkvQ-BJD2rU

Something tells me if I put sparklers and thermite in my DEC box running NeXT, it would burn, too.

IS it an Alpha?

Nope, sadly.

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