Power Macintosh 6xxx Tower - Like the way the case looks.

[tecneeq]

Still, it looks like a :-* mouth and the designers must have seen that too. What did they think?

I believe the Q700 shouldn't be in that picture. It's an entirely different design, am i the only one seeing it that way?

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

IIRC, the original "pout" lipped FDD openings were all off-center, so the question probably never came up . . .

. . . until the Vhack sillinessstarted in MinerAl's I want to do this thread.

The curvilinear entry for the new manual inject FDDs is pure Espresso, as opposed to the boxy Snow White injection/removal cavity for 5.25" Twiggy and A// FDDs . . .

. . . the Mac's :-* "pout" is much more elegant and efficient than the similar, but blocky and more shallow, centered of the PC's 3.5" manual inject/eject FDDs.

Be that as it may . . . I think it looks more like a robotic Jordy Laforge :-* . . . )

IMO, the 700 fits very nicely into that "Towers of Power" illustration. it's the only one of the bunch to overtly display Snow White design language influences, while fitting in with the later towers. Representing the IIcx MiniTower series, the very first tower configration Mac, was a necessity. The IIcx or IIci would look totally out of place in that Illustration as I see it.

Me likes industrial design topics. :approve:

 

[MinerAl]

Don't forget the transitional "smirk" of the Color Classic and Centrises (Centri?) , which was the Espresso solution for auto-inject FDDs. Maybe it's not a smirk, maybe it's a sort of "stroke droop."

Then there's the half-pout of the Q800-PM8500 case...

 

[uniserver]

ok man, if you type in "Jordy Laforge kiss" all kinds of stuff comes up... Didn't he also do the reading rainbow? lol

dont worry i will not post a pic!

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Maybe it's not a smirk, maybe it's a sort of "stroke droop."

In the case of the IIvx and IIvi, the droop would be due to lobotomization.

I guess it's "Geordi" and, yes, he did do the Reading Rainbow deal, IIRC.

 

[mcdermd]

And some obscure thing titled "Roots".

 

[RadioPatrol]

I have many fond memories of 1997 when I got my 6500 / 250Mhz a whopping 32 mb of Ram ...

playing Mech Warrior under 7.5.5 ...

until I upgraded to 7.6 and no longer had enough memory left to run the game xx(

0.o

it was a vast improvement over my Mac IIvx with 5 mb running Ram Doubler ...

I have since maxed out the 6500 with 128 mb the Apple TV Video System .. and an Ethernet Card in the Com II Port

 

[Schmoburger]

This thread just had me in stitches! :lol:

Personally im more of a fan of the later stepside towers... they just look expensive and businessy and powerful. But by comparison to some of the downright awful PC case designs Ive seen, the 6500 really isnt that bad IMO. If you want a seriously bad looking design, look at some of the PII era Gateway2000 systems... it aint pretty.

 

[Cory5412]

look at some of the PII era Gateway2000 systems

Oh man, Pentium II-IV was when my parents were totally into Gateway. Are you thinking of some of the later G5 or early G6 systems in the box case, or the later G6 systems from when they rounded everything out and had the removable face-plate (1)covering the additional drive bays, or from just after that when they were boxes but with rounded fronts again?

Back when we got our G6-400, the "family computer," it was of this particular style:



Later on, a Select 700 was bought for my room, it was of this style:



There was also the Gateway Destination, which certainly started ahead of its time, and the ProFile series, which never seemed too commercially successful, but intermittently had pretty good designs. There was also the Gateway Astro, which was pretty clearly ganking a specific design, while remaining true to its "I'm from a '90s PC vendor" heritage, which made it interesting, if not exceedingly boring. Although, they do say that every repost is a repost-repost.

(1) I am a reasonably big fan of faceplates that move away to reveal inner workings and/or additional drive bays, especially if they're bays you can't make pretty. Gateway did a lot of this. On the fatter curved minitower, you could also hang the faceplate to the front of the system when you were using something behind it, so as not to misplace it. By the time the Pentium 4 was happening, Gateway had built several of their systems with flippy lids covering all of the drive bays.

 

[Schmoburger]

Yep... that first one is the style I be referring too. My old man had one for quite a while, Was a II/233 from memory. He thought it was the ducks nuts but I can't say I ever liked it from a styling perspective... the curves and the removable front never really did it for me. KInda reminded me of an obese lady in high heels and a miniskirt. :lol:

I guess styling is something that can't really be quantified tho, whether it be computers, cars or anything else... one man's trash is another man's come up. Hell, some people think the Citroen DS is a nice looking car! lol

I've always been a fan of really tall, flat-faced, minimalistic PC towers, with no less than 4 drive bays. The thing is in the days of old I'd use up 3 drive bays easily... with a DVD-RW, a DVD-ROM, a 5.25 FDD, and at one stage I even had a cartridge drive, so ugly blanks werent even really a concern. Nowadays I dont run the 5.25 or the cartridge drive anymore, however the blanks in my case are moulded to the same form as the front bezel, so it's still a nice neat looking unit. This is it... minus DVD drives cos i robbed it of one when the G3's one died and the DVD-ROM stopped working ages ago... lol

Speaking of neat looking units, I LOVE that all in one Compaq... I actually have one in my collection somewhere. I was always a fan of the earlier 486-era Compaq machines... pain in the ass for parts as they were still running proprietary boards, PSUs and cases long after everybody else (except Packard Bell) had adopted the AT standard, however they were cool, powerful-looking slick machines, and the towers were a sight to behold... they were massive!

Then you have those unfortunate looking... things... of the Pentium era.... yech

 

[uniserver]

I am pretty excited my buddy Zack is going to send me one, * drools * lol

Finally all in the world will finally be well







"The neatest feature: a built-in subwoofer for very rich sound."

http://lowendmac.com/ppc/performa-6400.html

Cool!

 

[mcdermd]

Nice! I'm supposed to pick up a 6500 with a zip drive at some point.

 

[uniserver]

great post pics when you do

 

[Macdrone]

If I would have known you wanted one you should have asked when you saw mine. Geez. :approve:

 

[uniserver]

you have already hooked me up enough kind man.

 

[MinerAl]

I used to have those flame decals on a... something. Seems like you filled out a form on the Epson web site and they'd send you hot rod flame decals for your computer/printer. I can not remember what I did with mine though.