Date: 5 Dec 1981 1654-PST Sender: OLE at DARCOM-KA Subject: Rubikmania From: Ole at DARCOM-KA (Ole J. Jacobsen) To: Cube-Lovers at MIT-MC Message-ID: <[DARCOM-KA] 5-Dec-81 16:54:23.OLE> Check out TIME magazine, December 7th page 35, for an update on the cube and its many spin-offs and solution guides. The article mentions the Cube Smasher, "...guaranteed to pound the puzzle to bits", as well as the "Not Another.." book that Stan was talking about. Most interesting is perhaps the figure 10 MILLION (!) which is how many cubes have been sold Worldwide so far. This is presumably the official Ideal figure, so one wonders how many have been sold all together, Wonderful Puzzler seem to have done very well, at least here in the UK. If you are interested in computers, and presumably you are since you're on this list,- then check out page 33 of the same magazine for a very interesting article on Texas Instruments. OLE