I let a NeXT cube through my hands too, and regret it as well. In high school I guess I was the teacher's pet in my electronics class, and we regularly got old

I let a NeXT cube through my hands too, and regret it as well. In high school I guess I was the teacher's pet in my electronics class, and we regularly got old computers and parts as donations. I helped the teacher get a classroom's worth of PCs up and running as a network so he let me have the oddball donated NeXT cube that was just gathering dust. Then in college I traded it to another geek for an Xbox and a bunch of games. Seemed like an even enough trade at the time although now I wouldn't mind having that lovely magnesium cube around.