How to Burn a Magnesium NeXT Cube

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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Nice waste of time and money..

[Bowie J. Poag]

Lets see.. for burning a NeXT, you miss out on:

Learning a Unix other than Linux.
Learning a Mach kernel.
Learning a fully BSD-style Unix.
Learning Xwindow.
Learning PostScript.
Learning how to handle SCSI devices in Unix.
..and countless other things.

And, what do we gain by burning a NexT?

The ability to say "Duh, I burned a NeXT, i'm 31337."

Yes, I know that the one used in this little "demonstration" was only the case, and not the guts of the box. I just think its a pathetically stupid waste to destroy something that could be of value to someone else not as "31337" as you. No doubt, there will be some dingbat who thinks it'll be cool to take his Pentium out in the back yard and douse it with lighter fluid just so he can see a fire. Meanwhile, there are plenty of people who would have killed to get their hands on something as simple as a Pentium, to learn off of, and better themselves.