Paul R. Santa-Maria wrote:
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.
That's so "Jobs" that it's scary. ;-) "Perception precedes reality." -michael Parallel computing for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."