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How to Burn a Magnesium NeXT Cube

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-much-spare-time dept.

Saint Aardvark the Carpeted writes "How do you set a magnesium NeXT cube case on fire? It took this guy two years, *two* cases and the cooperation of Lawrence Livermore Lab's burn cell." A seriously bizarre tale, but worth a read if you're curious. And I have one of those cubes in my office... all sorts of fiendish ideas start.

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  1. MSDS for Magnesium by rm3friskerFTN · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    MSDS for Magnesium

    To bad Juanita didn't have a magnesium flare during her crisis.

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  2. Slashdotted Already by JBowz15 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1... 2... 3... Ding, Ding, Ding. And it's all over already.

    Wow, only 9 posts and the site's down already. A new record?

  3. Re:OS X by ncc74656 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    My first run-in with a NeXTcube was, if I recall the hostname correctly, mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (IP address reported as 128.174.68.206, but it isn't currently responding to ping...don't know if it's just shut off or if it's been decommissioned) back in 1989 or '90. In addition to the usual NeXT coolness, you could telnet into it and do the usual shell stuff with no time limits. uxa, the main student machine, had a 7-hour-per-week limit which I (and many of the people I knew) usually ran up against on Thursday or Friday (if not earlier). Having unlimited access (in terms of time...they didn't give us root) to mrcnext fixed that problem. (You could also stay logged into uxa past the seven-hour limit, but you were screwed if line noise killed your connection to the terminal server.)

    Of course, getting in lots of time on the computers was probably the main reason my spring-semester grades weren't so hot...:-|

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