Steve Jobs Shows Off NextStep 3, Says “Boom” Just Once

Cool tech demo for something new called “NeXTStep 3.” Could be big. Just kidding, of course. Always interesting to see Steve before his more recent, peak form. A little less suave than you might be used to. Still, NeXTStep 3 was awesome for its era – just barely shy of the first few releases of OS X.

Except that GUI. YEESH. Who on earth thought that all those floating palettes was a good idea?

Via Macenstein

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The most interesting part of Next step 3 that is NOT yet in MacOS X: inter application linking.
I wish Apple and MS cold agree on something great around to revive OLE on MacOS.
Church of Apple
“Blamo”
Awesome
http://www.macpro.se Joacim Melin
It’s still funny too see this clip appear on websites everywhere. It’s been a couple of years since I digitized the NTSC VHS-tape sent to me from a fellow NeXT fan in Australia. The convertion process was pretty ugly: A PAL/NTSC VHS player from Samsung, a recorder card in a PC running Windows XP (didn’t have any OS X hardware around) and then.. *boom*. We put it online on my website next.z80.org and after an hour or so my ADSL line at home was down. I had to stop Apache HTTPD on my web server to be able to pay my bills online!
So I added a few mirrors around Sweden and soon they where down too. After that, I asked all the participants of next.z80.org to help out with mirrors and at it’s peak we hade 20+ mirrors around the world.
Anyway, the short story of that little NeXTSTEP demo. I still have the VHS tape at home in my bookshelf. I’ll probably get around doing a better digital version of it any day now…