Compubrick SE

Apple's Jonathan computer could have revolutionized the industry. Instead of placing everything inside the main chasis, the Jonathan would have a backplane into which "books" containing different componets could be inserted. A user could start out by purchasing the bare minimum, and then add cards to the system as their needs grew. The Jonathan would even be able to accept cards containt different operating systems, making it a truly cross platform computer. But alas, the Apple executives were concerned that such a capability would result in users switching to MS-DOS, and so the Jonathan and its componet-based design were killed. It is a concept, however, that lends itself quite well to builing blocks... see full story at : http://www.applefritter.com/compubrick/compubrickse/

Created : February 12, 1999
Last updated : March 14, 2000