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The other is a sticker on the side of the Strawberry tray-loading iMac, indicating that it was an “Engineering Prototype” from Elo, a company that was an official “Value Added Reseller” for Apple products.
The transparent brightly colored plastic, the streamlined shape with rounded corners, and the bold-for-the-time choice to forgo floppy drives and myriad other PC ports made the G3 a style icon, to the point where the G3 is part of the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection.
As Michael MJD points out in his video, the iMac made sense as a good-looking computer you could park on a surface and allow people to manipulate without a keyboard or mouse.
Elo pulled this off in perhaps the most elegant fashion, fitting two transducers onto the standard CRT display, one to transmit and one to receive acoustic waves.
Touching the screen disrupts the wave pattern and alters the amplitude at a specific point, from which Elo’s tech can deduce an X/Y coordinate and even the Z-axis depth of pressure being applied.
Apple’s Value Added Reseller (VAR) program still exists, with companies like WEI and others offering enterprise IT support, security, or other mostly software-related services for those looking for a white-glove setup.
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