Boxed set of four NeXT Computer user's manuals, circa 1991, entitled: "NeXT User's Reference," "NeXT Applications," "NeXT Setup and Tutorials," and "NeXT Network and Systems Administration." Housed in a cardboard slipcase depicting a NeXTstation and NeXT Laser Printer. In very good to fine condition, with scattered marks and staining to the wrappers and slipcase.
Having resigned from Apple in the fall of 1985, Jobs founded the innovative NeXT project, a computer and software company aimed at the markets of business and higher education. The first NeXT Computer was introduced in 1988, and then the smaller NeXTstation two years later. While computers encountered subpar sales, the NeXTSTEP operating system and development environment proved highly influential. Apple purchased NeXT in 1997 for $429 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock, with Jobs, as part of the agreement, returning to the company he had co-founded in 1976.
