joe@oregon.uoregon.edu (07/16/90)
Due to the recent (rare) appearance of the summer sun here in generally damp and moldy Oregon, I happened to notice that Steve Job's flat black color scheme would do credit to the average passive solar collection system: specifically, direct sunlight rapidly increases the temperature of a NeXT monitor sitting on one's desktop. While temperatures don't seem to build to levels too hot too comfortably touch, the phenomenon does serve to illustrate one advantage of IBM "putty grey" cases. Does anyone have firsthand experience with tolerable temperatures for the NeXT monitor? (The cube itself doesn't get hit by the sun in my current configuration). Is anyone marketing a cube shield which'll reflect inbound rays? I suppose I could just tape aluminum foil on it, but that doesn't really seem worthy of such a noble box. I guess I could probably rearrange things to get the NeXT monitor out of the sunlight, but I really hate to let office layout decisions be cube-driven: it tends to make you doubt the direction of cube-user control flow. :-) Thanks for any suggestions, Joe