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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Why not computer-in-a-monitor?
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Date: 28 Feb 91 02:06:41 GMT
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In article <1991Feb27.181358.13467@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@ellis.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino) writes:
>Now that Macintosh motherboards have become so highly integrated and
>therefore SMALL, why not introduce a new design (or designs) putting said
>motherboards inside large-screen monitors.  I could easily picture, for
>instance, the guts of a IIsi mounted inside the portrait display, with a
>slightly taller case to accomodate the floppy disk and the peripheral ports.
>Apple could market it as an all-in-one desktop publishing/word processing
>solution. Many other combinations are possible.
>Is this a crazy idea?  I think not.  Comments?

I don't know...we (Sun) did it a while back.  SPARCstation SLC.  Boots off
a network, so no built-in floppy or hard drive.  Good way to increase seats
on a network, without doing something icky like hanging terminals off a
workstation (or Mac, for that matter).

Come to think of it, you've just described a Mac SE30 (roughly) with a
big screen.

It's so reasonable that Apple probably won't introduce one for quite a 
while.

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