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From: rlp@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Bob Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Summary: Time for comp.sys.artistic?
Keywords: color RAM disk backup software exchange
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Date: 1 Dec 89 06:58:09 GMT
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In article <21952@brunix.UUCP> rca@cslab7a.UUCP (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:

|> Actually, if Next would make
|>external drives in a cube chassis, or something that looked like
|>a cube, or if they made the chassis (just the magnesium case, not
|>the power supply, drives, board, etc) available to outside drive
|>manufacturers, I'd be happy.  Then I could stack the cubes, or,
|>if I had eight cubes, build them into a *big* cube :).

>Neat idea, they really should do it. Now, do we want cubes of
>different sizes to build some kind of artsy arrangement, or
>should they be all the same size? :)

Hmmm.  On one hand, I'd say all the same size (standard Next 1'
cube), for sake of standardization and making the 2-, 3-, and
4-side Next mondocubes (TM).  On the other, I'd say different
sizes...one 8" on a side, for tape backup, external disk, etc.
One 4" on a side, for the parts for teh 19.2Kbaud modem.  You get
the picture.  My office would soon look like a cubist's nightmare
done in flat black.  Of course, if empty 1' cubes were available,
you could just build whatever you wanted into it.  I've got it!
Have different sizes, and cluster them around the main cube.
Then you have a CubeCluster.  Sort of like a kid's plastic
bricks.

I hereby call for the creation of comp.sys.artistic, for the
discussion of issues related to the hoped-for cube family
from Next and the arrangement of said cubes.

NO, DON'T SEND ANY VOTES YET!!!  :*) (or, since this *was*
about cubes, :*] ).

bob