Judging by how poorly it was supported on classic Mac OS vs. contemporary Windows, a lot of those manufacturers were probably kept afloat by PC sales.

Besides, it was the late 90s. What wasn't in semi-translucent plastic, those days?

> Besides, it was the late 90s. What wasn't in semi-translucent plastic, those days?

You have your causality backwards. One thing that made the iMac so visible and discussed is that it wasn’t a beige or black rectangle.

To this day, everyone copies Apple's industrial design. So I'm not sold those Braun Iron printers were for Mac users, or just what was in fashion for the time.