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NeXT, inc (later NeXT Computer, inc & NeXT Software, inc) was a tech company founded by Steve Jobs in 1985 after he left Apple Computer, inc in the same year -- it later on was merged with Apple Computer on December 20th 1996, accompanied by Steve Jobs's return in the following year.

NeXT developed high-end workstations, more precisely the NeXT Computer released in 1988 and the NeXTcube & NeXTstation released in 1990, including different versions of them. In good old NeXT fashion, the computers had a monochrome display by standard, but there were options to get them in color.

The NeXTstation was a lower budget option of the NeXTcube.
There was the NeXTstation, NeXTstation Color, NeXTstation Turbo (a 33 MHz version of the normal 25 MHz) and NeXTstation Turbo Color. The NeXTstation was lovingly referred to as "the slab" and a "pizza box" of all things.
While the NeXTcube and NeXTcube Turbo only came in a monochrome version, customers were able to also purchase an additional color board, known as the NeXTdimension, to give the cube some color capabilities.

There's a NeXT accelerator board known as the NeXT Nitro. It upgraded a NeXTcube Turbo (and NeXTstation Turbo) from 33 MHz up to 40 MHz. It's insanely rare as there were only made an estimated 5 - 20 of them. (I still can't believe those low numbers myself)

I don't want to write something about every single product of theirs (well, not yet, that is), but I want to mention that there's also a NeXT Laser Printer, known as the NeXT 400 DPI. Cool thing.

NeXT not only made computer hardware, but also software. Most noticeably their operating system NeXTSTEP, and the API OPENSTEP.

Fun fact: Today's macOS got much more in common with NeXTSTEP than it does with the macOS prior to macOS X. There are a bunch of files starting with "NS", which stands for nothing else than "NeXTSTEP". The iconic spinning wait cursor originally came from NeXTSTEP as well.