The NeXTcube Turbo is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT. It superseded the earlier NeXTcube workstation and is housed in the same cube-shaped magnesium enclosure. It runs the NeXTSTEP operating system.
Hardware
The NeXTcube Turbo is a development of the earlier NeXTcube. It differs from its predecessor in having a 33 MHz 68040 processor.
The NeXTdimension board can also be used in the NeXTcube Turbo.
There was also a very rare accelerator board known as the Nitro; between 5 and 20 are estimated to have been made. It increased the speed of a NeXTcube Turbo by replacing the standard 33 MHz processor with a 40 MHz one.1
Specifications
- Display: 1120×832 17" grayscale MegaPixel Display
- Operating system: NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP
- CPU: 33 MHz 68040 with integrated floating-point unit
- Digital signal processor: 25 MHz Motorola DSP56001
- RAM: 16 MB, expandable to 128 MB (Four 72-pin SIMM slots)
- Floppy Drive: 2.88 MB (optional)
- Hard Drive: 400 MB, 1.4 GB or 2.8 GB SCSI drive
- Expansion: four NeXTbus slots (mainboard uses one slot)
- Size (H × W × D): 12" × 12" × 12"2
See also
External links
References
NeXT Nitro Information Archived April 24, 1999, at the Wayback Machine http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/Black/Nitro/index.html ↩
NeXTcube brochure http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/Hardware/nextcube.pdf ↩