[oclug] [OT] Cube on fire

[Patrick Smith]

Really getting off-topic, but I couldn't resist...

Patrick Smith wrote:
> The only reference I can find on the Web to a Cube catching fire is at 
> http://www.uoregon.edu/~consult/deptcomp/2000/msg01583.html.  But that 
> one seems to have had severe electrical problems first.  I doubt it was 
> caused by the lack of a fan.

Found another reference - with a picture!

http://www.simson.net/photos/hacks/cubefire.html

But it's a Next Cube, not the Apple G4.

Apparently the Next Cubes had magnesium cases.  Magnesium burns.  So 
someone decided to deliberately burn an empty case.  This turned out to 
be quite a saga.
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