@NanoRaptor I'm pretty sure my boss learned how to do newspaper layout on one of these 😜

@NanoRaptor I understand Frank Gehry used one of these for years.

@NanoRaptor Was this meant to be used with the drive on the side like a IIc, ST, or Amiga? Strange it has no Keyboard.
Apple Intellitype? Who knows

@NanoRaptor It was also available as a free upgrade to the MacII. To take advantage of the offer you put it in a box marked fragile and shipped it to yourself by courier.

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and those grippy lines were just for a slimming-effect on human perception (not to channel spilled drinks or anything useful)

@NanoRaptor As in “II hate snakes!”?

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Ha, these losers didn't sell an extra $1000 stand?

@NanoRaptor these were great for doing laundry by hand.

@NanoRaptor half height expansion cards could be shared with other models, but the chassis could only accommodate full height cards bent at an angle that matched the case. Attempts to bend standard flat cards had, at best, mixed success at bringing compatibility with standard hardware.

@NanoRaptor Didn’t they release a display with a tilted base to compensate?

Discontinued because people would buy them for standard Macs and complain that it was crooked.

@NanoRaptor I moved those Apple 21” CRTs up two flights of stairs, once. Two person job, that.

@NanoRaptor we don’t talk about the Macintosh II nda.

@NanoRaptor I hate it when my desktop layer-shifts.

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Meant to court the “disorganized desk” market 📚

@NanoRaptor Its a Pisa Box Mac.

@NanoRaptor wasn’t that the one they had on that ship in the Philadelphia Experiment?

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As ever, of course, ripped off by other companies at the time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy

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@NanoRaptor as an Indy owner, I doubly appreciate this

@NanoRaptor Hah! Used both of those machines back in the day ;-)

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Oh I miss my Silicon Graphics Indy. And yes I had been using that pretty earthquake design box while experiencing a minor earthquake in California.

@NanoRaptor When The Witness incorporates your Macintosh into The Final Shape

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It did have the cool, albeit controversial, startup sound, where instead of the usual chord it sounded like a small jet taking off.
If there was a memory error, instead of the arpeggio of death, there was a brief sound of a prop plane followed by a crash.

This was unfortunately removed in a later software update.

@NanoRaptor God tier shitposting, as always. :claps:

@NanoRaptor Interestingly this was Frank Gehry’s first and only foray into consumer product design.

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No, no, the thing is, they were designed for the Welsh market, where they were affectionately known as wether-go-macs.  Use in horizontal locations was a grey-market thing.

@NanoRaptor this is just a rebadged PS/2 Model 50 Z rotated through a corrupted quaternion

@NanoRaptor The SGI had a “WebForce” logo.

The IIndy had a “CyberDog Force” logo, in some rare prototypes.

@NanoRaptor it's a bit sad for monitor OEMs, really... we really needed monitors whose yaw could be adjusted. Apple gave them the correct motivation here!

(hopefully the crash sound for this one will be one of those "breaking glass" ones ;o)

@NanoRaptor Apple x Fruit Ninja

@NanoRaptor Little known fact: Years later, tired@of their ideas being sidelined, the design team behind it left Apple and became the Surface team at Microsoft.