Incidentally, I just contacted ColorWare to suggest that they offer "NeXT Black", the paint used on the Cube, as an option. I found the paint specification onli

Incidentally, I just contacted ColorWare to suggest that they offer "NeXT Black", the paint used on the Cube, as an option. I found the paint specification online in an old NeXT document for developers of NeXTBus expansion cards for the Cube. (http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=136&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=62ead926ef12dc8217c7c736a256980e http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=136&...) Yes, 3rd party hardware developers were expected to make sure the card-end panel face matched the cube's color, rather than being unsightly bare steel.