No image of the backup cube?
Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)
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Re: Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)
#12The meandering and hyper detailed style was nostalgic to me. Maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like this style was a lot more common 15+ years ago. I wouldn't dream of including this much detail now, and I don't think my writing would be well received if I did. But there's a lot of character in it. It also had more and different typos than I'm used to reading now, typos on the Internet now are mostly the wrong corr…
Comma splices have also become more common.
Re: Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)
#13Jobs left Apple and formed NeXT in 1985.
If he had chosen MIPS instead of the 68030, then the fate of the hardware line might have been quite different.
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#14For an article about photographing the burning cube, it contains surprisingly little pictures.
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#15For an article about photographing the burning cube, it contains surprisingly little pictures.
The very first line of TFA: Note: We have recently posted (all the photos)[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nitroba/albums/721575944354804...] from the cube burning on Flickr.
Re: Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)
#16No image of the backup cube?
Based on the details given I think this is it? https://flic.kr/p/vhKHj
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#17The meandering and hyper detailed style was nostalgic to me. Maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like this style was a lot more common 15+ years ago. I wouldn't dream of including this much detail now, and I don't think my writing would be well received if I did. But there's a lot of character in it. It also had more and different typos than I'm used to reading now, typos on the Internet now are mostly the wrong corr…
I grew up reading this style of USENET news, BBS post, etc. I’ve never had the capacity to write at length in this manner (lack of patience? self-defeating inner critic?) but I agree, it is still enjoyable to read. And it instantly calls to mind the early internet and the Bay area.
Re: Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)
#18Stories such as this make me nostalgic, and wish my Cube still booted up, and/or that GNUstep would get some traction, or even that I had a better successor to Altsys Virtuoso than toggling the settings for my stylus in Windows so that I can run Macromedia Freehand/MX.
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#19The meandering and hyper detailed style was nostalgic to me. Maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like this style was a lot more common 15+ years ago. I wouldn't dream of including this much detail now, and I don't think my writing would be well received if I did. But there's a lot of character in it. It also had more and different typos than I'm used to reading now, typos on the Internet now are mostly the wrong corr…
Comma splices have also become more common.
I had not noticed that, I will keep an eye out.
Re: Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)
#20The NeXT Cube's magnesium case was chosen for its excellent EMI shielding properties and heat dissipation, but this same material burns at approximately 2200°C (4000°F) - making this likely one of the hottest computer fires ever documented.