Steve Jobs created a NeXT generation operating system. The NeXTstation provides functionality that other computers are just providing today.The NS Color I/O cable attaches to the back of the computer on one end and on the other end the cable is split to connect to the display and the Sound Box. The Sound Box also has a keyboard signal port. Like a MAC or SUN of the same vintage, the mouse connects to the keyboard. These boxes run NEXTSTEP, which a full object-oriented OS. It has UNIX as a base and provides a gorgeous graphical interface. NEXTSTEP was also available for other platforms. They tend to run a little slow. But they have great digital sound and full color displays.

To allow CERN to test and maintain HIPPI equipment (High Performance Parallel Interface), a powerful test falcility is required. A tester has been developed at Los Alamos National Laboratories [9,10]. The CERN HIPPI testbox allows testing of HIPPI equipment both inside and outside the specifications. This includes the possibility of deliberately introducing errors. The main features of this testbox are: Manual set-up Processor controlled set-up Possibilities for remote analysis Checking the HIPPI specifications Checking illegal conditions

IBM’s first personal computer arrived nearly 10 years after others companies, but instantly legitimized the market. IBM introduced its PC in 1981. IBM equipped the model 5150 with a cassette port for connecting a cassette drive. The first IBM PC ran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor. The PC came equipped with 16 kilobytes of memory, expandable to 256k. The PC came with one or two 160k floppy disk drives and an optional color monitor. The price tag started at $1,565, which would be nearly $4,000 (about €3,400) today.

The 2671 was a text-only printer with a maximum print speed of 120 characters per second. The 2671 printers are very robust. For paper, they use normal thermal roll paper sold in most office supply stores for older fax machines. Although thermal printing is a quiet technology, the paper advance mechanism of these printers is plenty loud.

This is for HIPPI cable connections betzeen 25 Metres and 50 Metres. This repeater was developped at Los Alamos National Laboratories.

NEDDI (Never Ending Destination Interface). It was used for test purposes. It handles the HIPPI hardware handshake regardless of Data. The NEDDI was developed at CERN and manufactured at CES in Geneva.

The cartridges had a total capacity of up to 8.5 TB. They were actually manufactured by the Fujifilm company, used Barium Ferrite (BaFe) magnetic particle technology to store the user data and were equipped with a Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) chip (for quick access to the cartridge metadata).\ The tape length inside of each cartridge is 1147 meters while it is only 5.2 microns thick. Once mounted in a tape drive, the media moves over the drive head at the speeds of up to 4.7 meters/second when reading or writing, but up to 13 meters/second when locating to a file. Since 2019, all data that had been stored on such cartridges have been copied onto more modern supports. As of 2022, CERN uses similar tapes produced by other suppliers and having a capacity of up to 20 TB.