Re: Yay! Finally got myself a IIgs!

["Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@buckeye-express.com>]

Michael Black wrote:
> Yes, I remember thinking "that's a neat case" when I saw the ads,
> but when I actually saw one inside, there was pretty much no space.
> And the spaces for the parts were just barely enough, so if you
> wanted to scrap the III and use the nice looking case for something
> else, you couldn't because it really was way too specific to the
> III.  You could take an Apple II case, even a IIGS case, and put
> something else in there, without having to worry about much beyond
> basic dimensions.  But if you wanted to use the III case, you had
> to start from scratch in order to fit anything in.

I offer the following embellishment of a story I heard at Kansasfest
from one of the Apple II guys employed by Apple Inc.:

When Apple decides to create a new computer, the first thing they
do is hire an artist to design the team T-shirt.  Then they hire
a second artist to design the case.  Finally, they assign an engineer
to design a mainboard that will fit inside the case.

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Paul R. Santa-Maria
Temperance, Michigan USA