I had a 500+ and a 4000 at one stage. My mate had the 1200.
Learnt to program in AmosPro and made a couple of games.
I remember printing out my artwork on our colour dot matrix.
The A4000 got repurposed as a line tester when I studied animation. Perfect task for it. Taking shots with a vertical camera of each page. All hand drawn back then.
Get an Apple IIc, gut it (shudder) and use modern tech to retro fit it. I keep seeing retro Macs and considering it, but I can’t bring myself to ruin them.
Well there was a lot of piracy. Here in NZ this guy would post you a list of software. You paid $5 a disc. Put your order in and waited. You were lucky if all of them worked.
White Lightning and Dcopy were my personal favourites. Santa used to always bring me 50 blank floppys. Mind you, it did teach me crafts when I had to replicate the spinning cardboard code display that came with my friends original copy of Zool.
When I worked at an AASP repair center, I opened a lot of these iMacs. The space where the display is from the rear housing is pretty small. If you look at the diagram, you’ll see that there are two metal hangers that the display assembly hangs on because the glass reaches the bottom instead of sitting on the chin unlike in the previous model.
Putting the logic board in that space could cause some heating issues. It would be pressed against the hot backing of the display assembly and would generate heat from the CPU/GPU heat sink on the other side.
Here’s a picture from iFixit showing how the assembly is lifted off the enclosure after cutting the adhesive. You can also see how thick the panel is compared to the chin’s covering.
Here’s a picture of how far the MLB is from the edge of the housing. It’s a bit elevated from the rear housing so the fans can pull the heat out, but the heat sink doesn’t quite reach all the way to the opening of the fans.
Sure it all just comes down to engineering and design choices based upon technical component specifications and requirements. Is it required to be as such, no :—).
Historically Apple has put the majority of emphasis on aesthetics to market and project a higher level of products thus justifying exorbitant prices. But Apple is not a leader in many areas if we look at the industry as a whole, in many regards the industry as a whole has moved beyond them aside from their adept aesthetic design, marketing and branding. Even so Apple historically does not admit fault or admit that they are lagging behind even when the entire industry is well aware of it.
But yes we can all certainly marvel at various aspects of the inward and outward aesthetics of Apple’s products. Once we are all walking around with neuralink-esqe super computers directly attached to our brains and nervous systems, humanity can then be further obsessed with the vanity of our own appearances, symmetrical chins included.
If you look at the industry as a whole you miss the point of Apple. If you look at the car industry as a whole why are there lots of different marques, doing some things better than others, and vice versa.