The industrial design of PCd may have been lacking in beauty, but it was almost always practical. For example: I cannot think of any desktop models that lacked

The industrial design of PCd may have been lacking in beauty, but it was almost always practical. For example: I cannot think of any desktop models that lacked internal expansion. They may have used a riser card to stack in two or three slots sideways, but the slots were there. The design may have been crude, but at least your desktop wasn't turned into a disaster every time the technological landscape shifted: when hard drives became affordable, the world switched to 3.5" floppies, if you decided to use online services or send faxes directly from your computer, get a CD-ROM, or cable Internet.