I'd have to say that he must have been a pretty good manager.
After all, he did have the AB PCB designed to work just fine after reworked with the parts his team specified for it . . . after it failed under warranty. It was upper management that cut the legs out from under him on the parts installed in production.
It's pretty amazing that the solder joints of that design have lasted this long in computers with built in CRTs that went into production without fans or even effective convection cooling. It's always seemed incredible to me that an overall project manager could be so intent on building a Computing Appliance, especially the industrial design aspects of it, and make such incredibly bad decisions about specifications for the Power and Cooling Budget. Blissfully ignoring 40 year old industrial design standards for Televisions has to rank among the most myopic Industrial Design blunders of all time . . .
. . . it didn't help the poor guy in the clip one bit when the box enclosing the TwiggyMac's 5.25" FDD was deleted. His Analog Board had a decent chimney effect pulling the incoming air across it right down to the wire as well as the more robust components. It takes but a single glance at the cooling slots designed into the sheet metal of the frame from the bottom, while envisioning the TwiggyMac's box in place, to see how well and truly borked the convection cooling of the Logic and Analog Boards of the original Mac design were at the last second.
I'll wager that installing the TwiggyBox in any fanless Compact Mac would measurably decrease the ambient temperature inside the case overall and markedly increase the air velocity across the poor guy's AB . . .
. . . now if I could just get one of my three AB's working . . . :-/
p.s. anybody got remote temperature sensing gear? I'll ship you a TwiggyBox! Who wants to hack a mouse into an ADB Anemometer? }
