Electronics designed to be used in prisons are often required to be manufactured using transparent plastic cases. (to prevent smuggling and to make it harder for inmates to hide stuff)
I remember going, as a highschool student, to a university open house and watching the students in the computer lab playing some tank game (bz?) on Silicon Graphics workstations with the biggest CRT monitors I had ever seen. Good old days!
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Honestly this was peak culture. Everything else has been down hill.
Did you know why these came back?
That's a fantastic resource! Thank you for sharing.
Electronics designed to be used in prisons are often required to be manufactured using transparent plastic cases. (to prevent smuggling and to make it harder for inmates to hide stuff)
I had a 900Mhz cordless phone with see-through blue plastic in the early 00s.
Those iMacs were incredibly cool back in the day. I never used one, but always thought they were awesome.
My elementary school had a couple of them in the computer lab. We would sprint down there to try and get them first.
I remember going, as a highschool student, to a university open house and watching the students in the computer lab playing some tank game (bz?) on Silicon Graphics workstations with the biggest CRT monitors I had ever seen. Good old days!