From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Thu Apr 15 16:59:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id QAA29551 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:59:24 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:44:11 +0100 From: David Singmaster Computing To: jburkhardt@mediaone.net Cc: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Message-Id: <009D6A16.1B1880B4.26@ice.sbu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Different versions of the Ideal cube Ideal certainly did use oriental suppliers when the Great Cube Craze was on and I recall several qualities of cube appeared here. I can't remember for sure if they ever sold the open cornered versions. I definitely don't recall examples with markedly different colors. When Rubik's Fourth Dimension was launched here, I saw that they were using distinctly poor quality cubes, presumably from China or thereabouts. One person at the launch said hers broke within an hour. DAVID SINGMASTER, Professor of Mathematics and Metagrobologist School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics Southbank University, London, SE1 0AA, UK. Tel: 0171-815 7411; fax: 0171-815 7499; email: zingmast or David.Singmaster @sbu.ac.uk