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IBM PS/2 E, a very compact design inside, on the right side there's the psu, the floppy drive and under the floppy there's the 2.5 ide disk drive, on the left side the quad pcmcia to isa adapter.
Unlike the Macintosh, the Apple IIGS carried on the hacker tradition of providing open expansion slots. The freedom of hardware expansion choice went away with the Mac; not surprisingly, I switched to PCs in 1992...they still had slot architectures, and that expansion capability has served the industry well.
I have no idea where the sticky brown goo came from (or even what it is exactly) but it has leaked down all over the tape drives and the front of the cabinet!
"We at Lynx are professionals, unlike Sinclair with their 9v barrel connector, so instead we use a DIN plug with a mixture of +5v, -5v and +12v"