Is the illustrator making some subtle point with those three locked-up gears that cannot possibly move? P.S. Back in the it day was not only IBM that "was leer

Is the illustrator making some subtle point with those three locked-up gears that cannot possibly move? P.S. Back in the it day was not only IBM that "was leery of a single vendor supplying the vital CPU." Having a second source for parts was considered essential in many cases. P.P.S. s/iAXP432/iAPX432/ as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432