From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Wed Feb 18 13:29:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id NAA12405; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:29:22 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From cube-lovers-request@life.ai.mit.edu Wed Feb 18 11:08:58 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.5.16.19980218165604.29af224c@vip.cybercity.dk> X-Sender: ccc10207@vip.cybercity.dk Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:56:04 To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu From: Philip Knudsen Subject: Game designers [was Re: Rubik lawyers...] Dan wrote: >I don't think the archive has anything about the origin of the 4^3 (or any >other) design. Can you give a source for this well-known information? Maybe i was a little fast to state that it is "generally known Rubik did not design the 4x4x4 mechanism". I've also digged through the entire list archives as well as my own stuff, and have found nothing which directly indicated that Rubik DID design it. Now the earliest mention of 4x4x4 is in Hofstadter's article in S.A. from march '81, page 26. Quote: "Rest assured, it's being developed in the Netherlands, and it may be ready soon..." >From: mark longridge - >Probably (I'm not totally certain) it was Udo Krell, an inventor whose >design was used by Uwe Meffert to make the 5x5x5. Don't you think it would be known that Udo Krell also invented the 4x4x4 if this was indeed the case? All of this is getting a little vague, it could be nice to have this matter cleared up by someone who has some REAL info! Maybe someone who worked for Ideal at the time. Yours Truly, Philip K