Wow.

[JDW]

the vent grilles on top were never designed to support the force exerted by the focused weight of the mac vis-a-vis its feet.

Exactly! Even if those lower-row Macs aren't crushed into oblivion some day, I guarantee there are holes in those grills on top!

With that said, this certainly would be FUN to see if a little creativity was implemented. Imagine if they were all plugged in and attached to power strips with one master switch. With the flip of one switch, they all come to life and boot off floppies in the internal drive. Specially written software on each disk starts an animation sequence that plays on each of the Mac's screens, creating one enormous, animated mosaic!

Yes, I know it would be hard to keep all those Macs in synch when doing that. And of course, keeping those floppy drives maintained would be next to impossible. But it's fun to imagine.

 

[tomlee59]

I can hear the house wiring and breakers groaning under the surge. That stack pulls a few kilowatts in steady state, and probably a couple of times that when first powered on.

In other words, that guy must try it. It's a mad scientist's imperative!

 

[Mac128]

With the flip of one switch, they all come to life and boot off floppies in the internal drive. Specially written software on each disk starts an animation sequence that plays on each of the Mac's screens, creating one enormous, animated mosaic!

... and then, the heat from all those Macs without fans, especially on the bottom levels which vents are blocked, cause a massive display of smoke and sparks as the internals of each one overheats and fails in any number of the myriad of ways a compact mac can fail. Aside from the ozone-smell, the collection will revert to the state it was in before the flip of that power switch.

 

[JDW]

I just said it would be "fun" -- not necessarily practical. ;D

 

[equill]

What a housewarming party the first mass switch-on could make, with or without JDW's imaginative software animation as a bonus.

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[bluekatt]

im more worried about all that stuff tumbeling down for some reason