[disruptiveink]

You are correct. Steve definitely believed in doing things properly because you know they're there, regardless of who can see it: https://folklore.org/Signing_Party.html

> Steve came up with the awesome idea of having each team member's signature engraved on the hard tool that molded the plastic case, so our signatures would appear inside the case of every Mac that rolled off the production line. Most customers would never see them, since you needed a special tool to look inside, but we would take pride in knowing that our names were in there, even if no one else knew.

[tejtm]

That was done in Amiga 1000 cases 1985-ish. I would be surpised if they were the first.

https://www.commodore-info.com/computer/item/a1000/en/deskto...

[ricardobeat]

The parent folklore.org link mentions this happened at Apple in 1982, end of first paragraph.

[tejtm]

And, Jobs visited Amiga in 1983 which also suggests the idea came from him.