NeXT NeXTstation Turbo (1992-1993)

NeXT Computer, Inc. History 

After being forced out of Apple by former Pepsi CEO, John Scully, Steve Jobs took some Apple employees and started a new company, NeXT, Inc. in 1985. Their computer products were high-end workstations that were aimed at the business and higher education markets. NeXT’s first computer product was the NeXT Computer, released in 1988. The computer was extremely expensive, priced at $6,500, so did not sell well. A NeXT Computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN as the first server when he created the World Wide Web. NeXT didn’t sell many computers in its lifetime, and was ultimately bought by Apple Computer in 1997 to bring Jobs back as CEO.

✅ NeXTstation Turbo

The NeXTstation Turbo, released in April 1992 for a staggering $6,500, was a high-performance computer tower designed by Steve Jobs during his time away from Apple. Built inside a sleek, magnesium-alloy "pizza box" frame, the "Turbo" model packed a vastly accelerated processor and a massive memory capacity for its time, making it a dream machine for 1990s scientists and software developers. It ran a groundbreaking operating system that introduced the world to features we use daily, such as the desktop "app dock" and advanced visual layouts. In fact, this software was so powerful that it was used to code the world's very first web browser. Because this software eventually served as the absolute code foundation for modern Apple Mac computers, collectors revere the NeXTstation Turbo as the direct "grandfather" of the modern Mac experience.

Source: Mark Morton, Connecticut