year 1989

At the heart of the computer is a Motorola 68040 CPU, running at 25Mhz. It is part of a system architecture that also includes a Motorola 56001 DSP and an Integrated Channel Processor invented at NeXT. The NeXTstation provides exceptional system throughput and performance. The NeXTstation includes 8 MB of main memory, which can be expanded to an impressive 32 MB. It offers the latest in floppy disk technology; our 3.5-inch floppy disk drive stores 2.88 megabytes of information and can also read from and write to 1.44 MB and 720 KB DOS-formatted disks.