Burning the Cube

January 11, 2005 6:07 PM

Dear Dan, I am writing this memo to explain what happened to the case our NeXTCube Computer, Serial Number AA001032....
posted by casarkos (20 comments total)

Wow. 1993.
posted by ColdChef at 6:15 PM on January 11, 2005

Check your email casarkos.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 6:17 PM on January 11, 2005

Check your email casarkos.

I hate cryptic comments like this. Did you send him a threat, or inside information, or what?
posted by interrobang at 6:25 PM on January 11, 2005

I was going to make a snarky remark, but seeing as how my last was a pretty egregious double, I'll keep my mouth shut.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 6:25 PM on January 11, 2005

Ahh, the ol' burning cube. Good times, good times...
posted by ehintz at 6:27 PM on January 11, 2005

I love this story.
posted by loquacious at 6:35 PM on January 11, 2005

I enjoyed it.
posted by Songdog at 6:37 PM on January 11, 2005

Cool, long but cool. And it needed alot more damned pictures.
posted by fenriq at 6:41 PM on January 11, 2005

Is 1993 a record for Waybackfilter? (meaning an actual log or cache or even original of something that happened at the time, not reporting, republishing, or revisiting thereof)
posted by socratic at 6:47 PM on January 11, 2005

And it needed alot more damned pictures.

IIRC the orginal article in NeXTWorld(?) had more photographs
posted by pixelgeek at 6:56 PM on January 11, 2005

It was then that I noticed that the tube that brought the natural gas into the burner was three-inches thick.

Dude!
posted by dirigibleman at 6:59 PM on January 11, 2005

We put the rear panel into the burn chamber. The panel is a square piece of metal, 14'' on each side, and roughly half an inch thick.

A half inch thick?! Holy. Crap.

Aside: has it occured to anyone here that a Mac Mini is, like, a thousand times more powerful than a NeXT cube? (Well, in raw numbers....) The ways we waste our cycles...
posted by lodurr at 7:02 PM on January 11, 2005

lodurr: You ever see how thick the case for the G5 desktop is? It's no 1/2", but still (it weighs some 80 lbs... of aluminum)!
posted by basicchannel at 7:29 PM on January 11, 2005

Jobs has stock holdings in mining companies.
posted by five fresh fish at 7:33 PM on January 11, 2005

that's pyromania :D brilliant!
posted by kliuless at 7:37 PM on January 11, 2005

You ever see how thick the case for the G5 desktop is? It's no 1/2", but still (it weighs some 80 lbs... of aluminum)!

it doesn't weigh that much. we have one in the office that gets moved from time to time. i would say closer to 30 pounds. think of moving a cinder block.
posted by schlaager at 9:24 PM on January 11, 2005

Setting a NeXT on fire is sad. Also rad. Sort of srad, I guess.

*sniff* I miss the NeXT.
posted by stet at 10:23 PM on January 11, 2005

I miss the NeXT too. Back in the day that's what we had in the journalism computer labs at IU, and they rocked. Seriously.
posted by SisterHavana at 8:23 AM on January 12, 2005

Damn that's old. I was almost able to pretend I was back in the good ol' days of the web.
posted by milovoo at 8:30 AM on January 12, 2005

I knew a guy who used one as living room furniture.

It was perfectly functional, mind -- but with a fast laptop and a fast WinTel desktop, using the NeXT for anything significant was kind of a waste of time and effort....

It made a cool end-table, though.
posted by lodurr at 9:33 AM on January 13, 2005