[KirinDave]

My father was a lead in hardware engineering and manufacturing at NeXT. I have tons of footage of the amazing assembly technology that they used. I wonder if people would be interested in it.

It was heavily top secret at the time, but NeXT built their own custom robotics system (called thor) and had all sorts of amazing in-house manufacturing tech that was incredibly automated. The hardware itself was just beautiful, too.

[Gracana]

That would be great content for archive.org. Send Jason Scott a message, maybe they can help you digitize it.

[delinka]

I'd like to suggest having your dad and an Ars Technica journalist sit down for an interview. Get archive.org and Ars together to archive the footage and release a nice video edit in the article.

[dang]

Let's have a big thread about it on HN! Might your dad be available to participate?

[shakna]

> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

> NeXT built their own custom robotics system (called thor)

Thor! I remember reading a little bit about it, and finding it incredibly exciting, but finding anything from NeXT's projects that never quite went public has been really hard.

This is a treasure trove.

[krylon]

> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

Yes, please! That sounds absolutely fascinating!

[redcalx]

> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

YES!

[mrkgnao]

Just in case you're counting replies, yes! Bring your dad too, it'd be an honor for a ton of people who haven't met anyone from that age, let alone had a parent with stories like that :)

[mahrain]

There's an old video on Youtube called 'The Machine to build the Machines' which goes in-depth on their automated assembly line for mainboards. Could be a nice intro.

[wjbr]

'The Machine to build the Machines' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT6aphdX0rI

[glasz]

> I wonder if people would be interested in it.

you serious? post them already!

[beautifulfreak]

The Computer History Museum would probably be interested in that too, as well as anything your dad has to say about it! http://www.computerhistory.org

[grzm]

I wonder if people would be interested in it.

Yes! I've seen stills. Seeing the assembly in motion would be great!

[ch4ch4]

Please upload this somewhere!

[WillyOnWheels]

Inform your dad he is moving into the computer history museum.

[gumby]

Computer history museum loves donations of this sort.

[dba7dba]

Are you kidding me?? :)

Please share it. Would be much appreciated.

[maxharris]

Please, please, please post this somewhere!

[jdugan]

Yes, that would be amazing.

[nikki93]

Yes please!!!!!!!!!

[raleighm]

Absolutely yes.

[rubicon33]

Yes! It would be so cool to see that.

[javiramos]

OMG YES