Project code name Holstein
Updated 2001.01.06.1926
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Well I finally have my own Nitro! Ironically long ago I had offered Ben Black $4K for this Nitro Turbo System. To make a long story short he ended up selling it to someone else w/o talking to me. I now know the price was he sold it for was 4.4K. Won't say what I paid for it ;).
The Nitro board fits into the CPU slot of NeXT Turbo Systems and boosts performance on cpu intensive tasks. On this board is a 68040 40Mhz cpu and 128K of 4-way set-associative cache and a few ASICS to provide the interface (asyncronous) glue to the 33Mhz motherboard bus. Below are a couple of other images I took. |
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Personal e-mail from someone who for now shall remain nameless "there was more than 5". He had one, the release control guys had at least one for builds, there was one around that was used by the NRW group and later for porting cross builds, Steve Jobs had one in his NeXT for a long time, and there were various versions around in hardware. He also says he thinks a few were given to important customers as part of trials. Because of the above and many other reasons for now I am bracketing the number as more than 5 and less than 20 working prototypes. There may be more non-working prototypes out there. As I certianly have one.
Ian Stephenson - "I used a Nitro for a while ..." Ian Stephenson - Further comments about UI responsiveness & speed |
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Sam Goldberger of Spherical Solutions asked Daniel Miles Kehoe of Fortuity Consulting to run some comparision benchmarks between the Pyro and the Nitro for us. Included is a comparision to standard NeXT hardware Complete/working
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Ben Black - Sold for 4.4K to Sandy Hawkins below Sandy Hawkins - Whoi I purchased the Nitro from Harold Becker - Turbo Color Stefan Huelf - Working Prototype 1 of 5. Sam Goldberger - For a former NeXT employee. Sam Goldberger - A second one - ND too?! Sam Goldberger - The second one? - seperate from the ND! Seth Morabito - The Lucky Guy!!! - Sold! $1200 w/ NeXT Station Color Turbo Slab Jonathan - I have one. Brette - I talked to this individual and thought he had 2!! Brette - The post for his Nitro Cube! Buddy?! - He says he has a Nitro Dimension Cube! NeXT Museum - Reported by Eric Noyau - Seems the Nitro has been replaced by 33Mhz Alto? - I belive this was a hoax.
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