I do wish you'd explain that comment: Snarky, ironic, sarcastic? It certainly failed to budge the witty meter.
The 68kmla is a place where the back stories of Douglas Adam's IIfx and Steve Jobs Apple\\ are held to make them more special by their owners and others than much finer examples of either machine. Prototypes, special editions and oddities are avidly sought and cool vertical market systems for Content Production are highly regarded.
If by this . . .
. . . you mean by a "standard ExcelBox," then damn betcha!
That's my notion of any non-plastic, Vanilla Clone sheet metal made after about 1998 and the only thing special about it is the very fine level of industrial engineering that went into its sheet metal for the mass production of sturdy, inexpensive computer cases and it's dimensions happened be exactly what I was searching for a Hack. Jony & the Steve coulda' learned a thing or two from that design team, not that they'd stoop to doing anything that practical, being so busy prettying up some hardware at times less impressive than what wound up in that utilitarian jerry can.
What makes even that particular spice free case special to me is that it's a breeze to stuff it with all kinds of random crap just for the hell of it . . .
. . . like so.
BTW, I never once claimed my case was a prototype of any kind, see title, it was a question. That question was prompted by finding an Apple logo stamped on the bottom of something installed within a case I bought years ago simply because it was the right width, was odd, interesting because of the crazy mods to the metal casing and it had a look of general usefulness.
Exploring the timelines and possibilities of its having been used for development, possibly even prototyping CHRP was instructional, good exercise for the imagination and a lot of fun, especially gorgonops's good natured, witty and educational snarkism.
If such offends you or any others, mea friggin' culpa . . . :
I had these pictures all prepped for the comparison yesterday, the cases are equally step-stool worthy and inexpensive. They're just constructed according to wildly differing design philosophies.
Enjoy gang. :approve:
The 68kmla is a place where the back stories of Douglas Adam's IIfx and Steve Jobs Apple\\ are held to make them more special by their owners and others than much finer examples of either machine. Prototypes, special editions and oddities are avidly sought and cool vertical market systems for Content Production are highly regarded.
If by this . . .
. . . you mean by a "standard ExcelBox," then damn betcha!
That's my notion of any non-plastic, Vanilla Clone sheet metal made after about 1998 and the only thing special about it is the very fine level of industrial engineering that went into its sheet metal for the mass production of sturdy, inexpensive computer cases and it's dimensions happened be exactly what I was searching for a Hack. Jony & the Steve coulda' learned a thing or two from that design team, not that they'd stoop to doing anything that practical, being so busy prettying up some hardware at times less impressive than what wound up in that utilitarian jerry can.
What makes even that particular spice free case special to me is that it's a breeze to stuff it with all kinds of random crap just for the hell of it . . .
. . . like so.
BTW, I never once claimed my case was a prototype of any kind, see title, it was a question. That question was prompted by finding an Apple logo stamped on the bottom of something installed within a case I bought years ago simply because it was the right width, was odd, interesting because of the crazy mods to the metal casing and it had a look of general usefulness.
Exploring the timelines and possibilities of its having been used for development, possibly even prototyping CHRP was instructional, good exercise for the imagination and a lot of fun, especially gorgonops's good natured, witty and educational snarkism.
If such offends you or any others, mea friggin' culpa . . . :
I had these pictures all prepped for the comparison yesterday, the cases are equally step-stool worthy and inexpensive. They're just constructed according to wildly differing design philosophies.
Enjoy gang. :approve: