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I have a color turbo. Wonderful. Nearly useless, but wonderful. I would like a Cube so that I can relive the wonder of its release at a Seybold tradeshow way back when I was early in my career.

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At one point in the early 00’s I had twelve Cubes that I picked up for free from a company that was getting rid of them. I was flush with geek treasure, and wanted to generously share my hoard with friends. By the time I realized what I’d done, I’d give them all away. D’oh! But at least I made twelve people very happy, and I still have a big stack of Nextstep install CDs.

Have any software? My Turbostation is looking for more software.

Oh! Go here for software! http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/

Great resources and discussion board here: http://www.nextcomputers.org

Un there actually. I"m looking for the stuff you can't find there. Like Virtuoso 2.0 (freehand 5 on the Mac apparently), and other things.

Really if you have any NeXT software you should make copies and share with the world.

Unfortunately, my stuff came from this site, sorry.

No worries. Some people however are hoarding rare software - software that is very likely to cease to exist once their collections fail. But refuse to share or make backups.

It would actually be nice if the developers of these old applications would upload their source somewhere so that enthusiasts can build on them.

GNUSTep is an implementation of the Openstep spec, so there's a good chance that that old software could be ported to Linux (or even OSX) without too much effort.

All I've got is Nextstep 3.2 for 68K and intel, and Quicktime.

Wow, that is amazing. You belong in the geek pantheon for that. Two of the defining moments for young me were seeing the NeXT Cube in action, and seeing the original introduction of Adobe Acrobat. Seems mundane now, but grasping the potential of these things was profound.

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