Volume III
The Road Not Taken
While Apple struggled through the 1990s, Steve Jobs was building something extraordinary just down the road. These two machines represent a parallel universe — the computing future that almost was, and eventually became macOS.
Chapter 01
The Workstation
The Narrative
NeXT's 'affordable' workstation was $5,000 retail. It ran UNIX, used Display PostScript for the screen, and proved concepts that wouldn't reach mainstream computing for another decade.
Chapter 02
The Cube
The machine Steve Jobs built after Apple fired him. It ran an OS a decade ahead of its time, on hardware that Apple would eventually buy the whole company to acquire.