"As a senior editor for this blog, I would have assumed you had greater insight into design history. The corner PC was not, "...just the result of an incompetent industrial designer."   It was very likely the result of concerted effort to design for the context of computers at that time.  The CRT monitors of that era were substantially larger and deeper and took up immense desk space.  This corner design was actually a novel configuration that provided greater space in front of the monitor by organizing internal components in a non-rectangular configuration.  (The typical rectangular configuration of the time would take up more space if it was aligned with the faceplate to the operator and aligned into the corner beneath the monitor. )  The round monitor stand component was actually removable for smaller monitor usage.  So no, it wasn't likely the result of incompetence; probably the opposite.  And the resulting form probably also had nothing to do with 3D modelling.The Amiga, by contrast, WAS a 3D modelling machine.  It was one of the earliest PC's I was aware of to have modelling software built into it.  Video and music editing too, many years ahead of the competition.  And they always looked different from the windows clones that existed at the time.  While it may have come to existing through 3D modelling, I'd suggest that it's unique (?) form was the result of early lifestyle PC design intent.  Something designed with marketing position and end-user taste in mind.  Hardly enabled because of 3d modelling.M."