The heat sink that sunk the Apple III. Over decades at Apple, Chris Espinosa shipped the Apple II, Macintosh, MacWorks XL, and dozens of other products and features. The Apple III holds an infamous place in computing history. Thanks to an unfortunate design decision combined with the wrong choice of metals, components would begin to overheat, oxidize and fail. #Appleat50 #Apple #SteveJobs
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"Hello, IT. Have you tried lifting the lid and dropping it again?"
Steve would be so happy to see the Air Mac of today
"That board would flex" *entire audience* "Ooooooooh"
I don’t understand but I love how the audience understands.
I'm willing to bet a lot of people in that audience had an Apple III and knew the deal.
steve only liked one fan xD
I remember buying a non Apple accessory that added a fan to the side of our Apple IIe.
What's funny is that this is how they do cooling in many of their modern computers as well. It's why apple moved to the M chips. Instead of improving cooling, they focused on making it produce less heat. Which paid off for them.
All those apples in school. Now I know why
Tech Support: "Have you tried picking up and dropping your computer?"
This makes me just want to be in a crowd of such well informed people. The oxidation sequence was wonderful!
Imagine pouring hot water into your computer’s board every cold morning 😂
Ah yes, the old-school method of "just hit it really hard" worked on the televisions in the 70's
hey, thank you. i really like what you did w the screen. it didn’t go unnoticed. effort like this is what kept me in ❤
Somewhere in an office building: “What are you doing!?” “Oh you know, just performing some percussive maintenance on my system, look here’s the procedure in the manual”
The vending machine method of "just shake it around a little"
Percussive maintenance is a Technicians best friend.
I worked on Aviation Communication and Navigation equipment in the Marines. I specifically worked on the APN-171 which was a radar altimeter. On certain occasions, it would test completely fine on the test bench but would still break track (not going to get into it, just means it’s not working) I would lift up the back about 4-6 inches while the front stayed on the table and drop it, and it would work about 80% of the time.
That picture of Steve Jobs though lmao.
Another genius idea from Steve jobs.