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Too bad they didn't take video. For more images, be sure not to miss the link at the top of the page to the album: http://picasaweb.google.com/nitrobaphotos/NeX
by biot 15y ago
Too bad they didn't take video. For more images, be sure not to miss the link at the top of the page to the album: http://picasaweb.google.com/nitrobaphotos/NeXTCubeFireAtLLL http://picasaweb.google.com/nitrobaphotos/NeXTCubeFireAtLLL
- tawman 15y agoI missed that link, but thanks for re-posting it here. The real life photos filled in the gaps of the pictures I visualized in my head while reading the story. Very cool and I can relate as we all have an old computer case in closet somewhere.
- joezydeco 15y agoThe case in your closet probably is not made of pure magnesium. That was the point of the burn.
- inportb 15y agothe NeXT case was also not made of pure magnesium
- joezydeco 15y agoOkay, what else was in it? And let's leave things like decals and paint off the list.
- inportb 15y ago> magnesium alloy which is specially designed to be difficult to ignite The story doesn't say what else was in it, but feel free to support the claim that the box was made of pure Mg and not an alloy, modulo things such as decals and paint.
- ryanwatkins 15y agoVideo captured on a second cube with a NeXTdimension board would have been fitting.
- kljuhyfg 15y agoutterly clueless; the NeXTdimension didn't do video.
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- ryanwatkins 15y agoThe compression daughterboard didnt get finished, but that was the point of the device. I know, I own one.
- atomicdog 15y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvQ-BJD2rU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvQ-BJD2rU