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The "Jonathan" reborn?



The "Jonathan" concept computers designed by John Fitch in the mid-Eighties utilized a 'bookcase' concept where multiple modules (or books) housing internals for specific operating systems all resided on the same track outputting and receiving input from the same devices. Last year Microsoft sponsored a competition, Start Something PC (now renamed Next-Gen), the 2005 winner was a concept called "Bookshelf" that had a physical design very similar to the "Jonathan". However, rather than allowing multiple computer systems to run in the same space, the books focused on storing digital rights managed content. In essence carrying over the idea of ownership and how we organize physical sources of information into the digital world. Wonder if Sungho Son and Scott Shim had read the 1997 book, “Apple Design: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group”.

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