http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7foG1rtlA
How NeXT computers were made…
Promotion video from NeXT, Inc. about their factory and manufacturing process. Also briefly contains an all-too-short clip of some NeXT premiere…
PICK AND PLACE ROBOTS
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Beautiful film. Everything I’ve read about the NeXT manufacturing environment left me with the impression that it was very non-industrial, reminds me of what we’re seeing today in desktop manufacturing. I’m very proud to own one of these machines.
All of that trouble to design their own, advanced pick-and-place, and how many of the NeXTcube motherboards did they ever build? Seems like a great deal of engineering for a product that was manufactured in small numbers. Since they were always so guarded about the numbers, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an estimate of the number of NeXTcubes made. Thousands, certainly, but did they even make 10,000?
Dug this up via wikipedia:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2005/12/69888
“… in the four years NeXT made hardware, only about 50,000 Cubes sold.”
steve jobs once again advances the state of the art in electronics manufacturing.
this is a fitting tribute to our brave industrial robots. *salutes*