From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Tue May 18 20:21:45 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 UAA20507 for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 20:21:45 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Reply-To: From: "John Burkhardt" To: Subject: "The" Hungarian cube ?? Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 05:41:10 -0400 Message-Id: <000301bea112$904d7070$3cca8018@octopod.ne.mediaone.net> I recently bought a rubik's cube from someone. It was in a blue cardboard box that has Hungarian all over it. The closest thing to a logo says: "Politoys" and under that it reads: Hungary Budapest. On one side of the box there is a long three paragraph description which I can't read and it's signed by E. Rubik. When I opened it up I found a cube that looks in every way identical to the Ideal version of the rubik's cube. Same colors. Same "Rubik's cube" logo in the center white square. Does anyone know if this is, in fact, a very early version of the cube or did someone put an Ideal cube in this box? What was the first and original cube? The guy who sold it to me is also very curious. Could it be that Ideal took over and this is a later production that was begin sold in Hungary? I'm wondering then why there is no indication of "Ideal" anywhere on it. -John [ See ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/cube-lover/cube-mail-0.gz for discussions of early Hungarian and American cubes. -- Dan ]