Friday, October 8, 2010

NeXT computer

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer in 1985 to start a company called NeXT. The NeXT computer is intended to be an affordable supercomputer aimed at the academic market. Unfortunately, the computer fails in the marketplace as NeXT churns through $250 million in capital. The failure is due to its $6,000 price tag and the fact that there is no useful software for it.
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