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Wasn't the casing out of magnesia... I always thought if I get one I will be worried it will go down in a blaze on new years eve if somebody touches it with a s
by andi999 5y ago
Wasn't the casing out of magnesia... I always thought if I get one I will be worried it will go down in a blaze on new years eve if somebody touches it with a sparkler. (I have somehow very specific counter factual worries, since I do not own one)
- mumblemumble 5y agoIt was a magnesium alloy that turned out to be devilishly difficult to get going in practice. See this article that adolph linked in another comment: https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html
- BoxOfRain 5y agoOut of all the things I expected to see today, a very detailed description of the conditions required to set an NeXT cube on fire was pretty near the bottom of the list.
- jandrese 5y ago> "This is so NeXT," I told Sally. "Everything works great in the tests, then when you try to make it work for real, in the field, nothing works. They build a computer out of magnesium, and it doesn't even burn!" LOL
- _moof 5y agoIt is, yes. Don't take it outside on holidays :)