Re: baked apple

["Blake Patterson" <blake@blakespot.com>]

On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 06:15:05 +0000, Bryan Villados wrote:

> This example is way beyond anything being durable. I'm willing to take a
> stab at this one... When the Titanium PowerBook first came out, I once was
> reading a thread on SlashDot about burning titanium. Supposedly, it gives
> off a blue glow when the material burns. Someone else mentioned that this
> model wasn't the first to use titanium, and that one or more of the NeXT
> computer models used the same material. The last thing I remember of the
> thread, someone was going to attempt to use a blow torch on a NeXT computer
> to see what would happen. I'm wondring if the person tried a similar
> experiment with this particular Powerbook unit.
> 
> --- Bryan


Here is an article I posted on MacRumors.com back in the
late summer of '01.  

http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2001/08/20010811121900.shtml

Details the burning of a magnesium NeXT Cube.  Quite a 
spellbinding tale.




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