[Framers] FM on Next - question from a nostalgic person

[Fred Ridder]

Actually, the original NeXT computer was designed before CD-ROM was standardized. The so-called Yellow Book that contained the CD-ROM standards was published in 1988, the same year that the NeXT was introduced. Instead, the original NeXT computer came with a magneto-optical disc drive that used removable disc cartridges as both the primary storage and the external media device while a magnetic hard drive was an option.

In 1990, the second generation NeXT -- the one that was officially named the NeXTcube -- dropped the MO drive in favor of a conventional hard disc as the primary storage. A 3.5" HD floppy drive was available as an option and every cube I saw was fitted with one. The NeXTstation (the pizza box) came with a 3.5" floppy standard.

-FR

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From: Framers <framers-bounces+docudoc=hotmail.com at lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Grant Hogarth <grant at hedgewizard.net>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 6:53 PM
To: Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
Cc: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers at lists.frameusers.com>; Ralf Kohler <r.a.kohler at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Framers] FM on Next - question from a nostalgic person

Well, Huh! <wry smile>

Guess my memory isn't all that reliable. I had it in my head that the
NeXT only had a CDROM drive for external media.

Thanks for this, Robert.

On 6/15/20 2:16 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> FM3 for NextStep came on five floppy disks.
>
> https://fsck.technology/software/NeXT/NeXTSTEP%20Applications/Framemaker%203.0%20NeXTSTEP/
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:39 PM Grant Hogarth <grant at hedgewizard.net> wrote:
>> As one of the writers who wrote the documentation for that generation of
>> FM (Chris Despopoulos was part of that crew), I recall that most of the
>> documentation was included on the delivery media (for NeXT, that would
>> have been a CD). Unfortunately, I don't have (that I know of), a copy
>> any more. As Robert Lauriston notes, that documentation should be in the
>> FrameMaker directories (under "Manuals", as I recall).
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