From cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Wed Dec 4 22:36:08 1996 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Received: from curry.epilogue.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by curry.epilogue.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA16749; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 22:36:08 -0500 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Message-Id: <9612040842.AA14888@jrdmax.jrd.dec.com> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 96 17:42:27 +0900 From: Norman Diamond 04-Dec-1996 1742 To: Cube-Lovers@AI.MIT.EDU Cc: nbodley@tiac.net Subject: Re: 6-cube and Hofstadter; Meffert Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-2022-JP Nicholas Bodley writes: > He also said that almost all the Magic Dodecahedrons had been melted down >for their plastic, because each one used about $2 worth. I don't think either part of that is true. I'm nearly certain that the magic dodecahedron is still in Dr. Bandelow's catalog. Although to be pendantic, I believe Meffert's company was in Hong Kong, so the $2 value of plastic might be accurate in Hong Kong dollars. > Does anyone know whether Uwe M=E8ffert (Meffert, if your char. set isn't >ISO 8859-1 compatible [See Moderator's Note]) is still in business? 1. Maybe around 10 years ago, I read that his company went bankrupt. 2. The world's largest country uses a language which can't be written using ISO 8859-1 compatible characters. So do some neighboring countries. The world's second-largest country has a small fraction of its population well educated in a language which can be written using those characters, but its most commonly used language (and most of its languages) cannot be. -- Norman Diamond diamond@jrdv04.enet.dec-j.co.JP [Speaking for Norman Diamond not for DIGITAL, in Japan or elsewhere.]