When Jobs took over the Macintosh project - some, including Raskin himself, would say stole it - he changed just about every detail except this one. In contrast to Steve Wozniak’s beloved hacker plaything, Raskin’s computer for the people would be as effortless to set up and use as a stereo, a television, or a toaster. The absence of slots was one of the bedrock attributes of Raskin’s original vision for the Macintosh, the most immediately obvious difference between it and Apple’s then-current flagship product, the Apple II. Jef Raskin and Steve Jobs didn’t agree on much, but they did agree on their loathing for expansion slots. original Macintosh team-member Andy Hertzfeld It was a valid point of view, even somewhat courageous, but not very practical, because things were still changing too fast in the computer industry for it to work, driven by the relentless tides of Moore’s Law.
But the problem wasn’t really technical as much as philosophical, which was that we wanted to eliminate the inevitable complexity that was a consequence of hardware expandability, both for the user and the developer, by having every Macintosh be identical. The biggest problem with the Macintosh hardware was pretty obvious, which was its limited expandability.
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