Editing Macintosh Classic (section)

==Design==
[[File:Apple Keyboard II.jpg|thumb|The [[Apple Keyboard#Apple Keyboard II (M0487)|Apple Keyboard II]] is the Macintosh Classic's standard keyboard.]]
The Macintosh Classic is the final adaptation of [[Jerry Manock]]'s and Terry Oyama's [[Macintosh 128K]] industrial design, bringing back some elements of the original while retaining little of the [[Snow White design language]] used in the [[Macintosh SE]]'s design.<ref name="appledesign">{{Cite book |last=Kunkel |first=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/DTCA3DOC-230_industrial_design/page/75 |title=Appledesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group |publisher=Watson-Guptill |year=1997 |isbn=1-888001-25-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/DTCA3DOC-230_industrial_design/page/75 75]}}</ref> The only remnant of the SE is the stripe across the front panel (bezel) for the floppy drive; the distinctive front bezel lines of the SE were not used on the Classic, and the vertical lines around its base are replaced by four horizontal vent lines, more reminiscent of the original design.<ref name="appledesign" /> Also, the curve of the front bezel was increased to the same {{convert|50|in|m|adj=on}} radial curve as on the front of both the [[Macintosh LC]] and [[Macintosh IIsi]].<ref name="appledesign" /> The screen brightness dial on this bezel was also removed in favor of a software control. This broad, curved front bezel became a signature of Apple product design for much of the 1990s.<ref name="appledesign" />

The [[Motherboard|logic board]], the central circuit board of the computer, is based on the Macintosh SE design.<ref name="mac-classic-devnote">{{Cite web |year=1990 |title=Macintosh Classic Computer Developer Note |url=https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-68K_Desktop/Mac_Classic.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724112639/http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-68K_Desktop/Mac_Classic.pdf |archive-date=July 24, 2008 |access-date=May 6, 2008 |website=Developer Technical Publications |publisher=[[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]]}}</ref> Its size, however, was reduced using [[surface-mount technology]]<ref name="mac-classic-devnote" /> to 9 × 5&nbsp;inches (23 × 13&nbsp;cm), half the size of the SE board. This redesign, and the absence of expansion slots, kept manufacturing costs low.<ref name="mac-classic-devnote" /> This lack of expansion abilities, along with the small screen size and Macintosh's popularity in [[desktop publishing]], led to such oddities as video displays that connected through the [[SCSI]] port by users seeking to connect a larger full- or dual-page display to their Mac. The Classic design was used once more in 1991 for the [[Macintosh Classic II|Classic II]], which succeeded the Classic.<ref name="appledesign" />