Scott Baret
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I'm sitting in a public library typing this mostly to buy some time until I hit the pool. The computer I'm using is one of the HP Compaq models, the sticker tells me it's a dc5000 SFF. It reminds me a lot of an LC, maybe more a IIsi, in terms of design. It's roughly the same width as an LC/IIsi, maybe even a little narrower, and about the height of a IIsi.
Apple was, I believe, the first to use the pizza box design. This little machine reminds me so much of it that I'm wondering if designers still look to those old 1990 vintage machines sometimes when they are designing their computers.
To top it off, there is a CD-ROM drive on the right side where a floppy would have been on an LC. The floppy is on the left. Even the HP logo is right where an Apple should be, next to the audio and USB ports (which would have probably made it onto a computer of that form factor if it wasn't nixed after the LC series came to a close).
Apple was, I believe, the first to use the pizza box design. This little machine reminds me so much of it that I'm wondering if designers still look to those old 1990 vintage machines sometimes when they are designing their computers.
To top it off, there is a CD-ROM drive on the right side where a floppy would have been on an LC. The floppy is on the left. Even the HP logo is right where an Apple should be, next to the audio and USB ports (which would have probably made it onto a computer of that form factor if it wasn't nixed after the LC series came to a close).