Date:   Sat, Aug 19, 1995 1:00 PM PDT
From:   BradKirchn
Subj:   Rubik's Cube
To:     PsychoWWW

According to a local Rubik's Cube expert in the Seattle area:

Rubik's Cube
made by Erno Rubik.

He cites two articles as examples...

Scientific American, March 1981:  an article here by Douglas 
Hosteader (spelling?) tells of Mr. Rubik as a teacher of Architect 
and Design at school for commercial artists in Budapest (Hungary).

He is also referred to as Hungarian in the following article: Wall 
Street Journal Wednesday, September 23, 1981 (front page article)

I don't have the text of either of these articles in front of me.  
They were read over the phone to me.  I suppose I could ask my 
source for copies if really needed but I prefer not to hassle him.

He's has stacks of information on Rubik's Cube and these are just 
two examples.  The spelling of names above might be incorrect 
because I didn't ask him for spellings from the articles in all 
cases.

Rubik's Cube (in another article, source unknown) is referred to 
as the "Hot-selling Hungarian Horror" or "magic cube" = Büvös 
Kocka (in Hungarian)

(Just in case the accents are messed up, they were described to me 
as follows.  Buvos Kocka.  Over the first "u" is not actually two 
little dots, but, instead, two little slashes (like a quotation 
mark).  Just above the first "o" in Buvos are two little dots.  No 
accents in the second word.)

Brad