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I wonder if the Nintendo releases of a variety of gameboy consoles in transparent/colored plastics prior to the iMac was any influence at all. Certainly they ga

• klodolph 6y ago
  Other aspects of Nintendo’s design ended up in Apple’s products. Supposedly, the design of the Game Boy link cable was the inspiration for the FireWire cable. There were a few earlier translucent Apple devices though, like the eMate 300. My guess is that the suppliers for plastics in the 1980s and 1990s added better translucent plastics to their catalog, and that’s where people got ideas. Other manufacturers did it even earlier than Nintendo and Apple, like the transparent case landline telephones from the 1980s. Wikipedia has an article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_craze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_craze Nowadays you only see this stuff in prison.