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AmpleApricots said:
Some people here probably saw these before but I stumbled across them and I thought readers of this thread might find it interesting, the known computer chassis manufacturer Silverstone came up with two "retro case" designs, tower and desktop, respectively. Faux 5,25" drive covers, turbo buttons, Mhz display and everything.



I couldn't find their tower design in the product lineup and it also isn't sold yet. IMO not bad, I do think the 5,25" floppy drive covers are a bit much, though. There's currently a trend of "retro looking but modern" PC hardware going on with these chinese manufacturers. Started with keyboards, I think. It's perfectly possible again to have a full beige desk setup, down to a potential game controller.

For people who have old PC mainboards (Baby AT) but no fitting case and have their gears turning now - yes, even though there's no explicit compatibility, often AT boards do fit into ATX cases.
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Those would be great for a beefy Greaseweazel setup. Better than sacrificing vintage cases for retrofitting, imo.
 
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Flaming Dumpster said:
He looks like he should not be permitted within 1 mile of an elementary school.
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Nigga looks like he should be doing the Sex Offender Shuffle.


AmpleApricots said:
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Non-pozzed version of the above link.

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It even has one of those locks that nobody ever used.

Want.
 
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Pee Cola said:
It even has one of those locks that nobody ever used.
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I once enabled the keyboard lock on our family PC to prevent my brother from playing our newly arrived copy of Fury of the Furries before I got home from school. Somehow this damaged the keyboard controller, permanently locking out any key input. FOTF was not worth the pain.
 
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ZMOT said:
>no fake 3.5"/cdrom slot
ONE
JOB
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Those are real drive bays. You can put a real floppy or optical drive in. (You'd probably need a USB/Floppy adapter for a disk drive).

I have a BluRay burner I keep in one of my rackmounts because I still sometimes buy CDs at live shows or second hand shops. (you can use abcde to rip CDs from an SSH session).
 
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HootersMcBoobies said:
Those are real drive bays. You can put a real floppy or optical drive in. (You'd probably need a USB/Floppy adapter for a disk drive).
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not talking about the bays, I mean the covers. if you can do a fake 5.25, you can fake others as well. especially since at that point in time most people didn't have anymore.
 
New Cathode Ray Dude:

In this video, he talks about the evolution of PC form factor standards, specifically the emergence of ATX. He talks about the common story as everyone knows it (original PC was pseudo standard, clones happened which followed IBM's lead, clones diverged, eventually ATX was birthed by Intel to keep clones interoperable), but also focuses on a particularly strange bit - power supply form factors. Apparently there's some uncertainty about how we got to ATX-style power supplies from the original IBM PC style ones and apparently there were power supplies that predated ATX but were essentially ATX-style power supplies. This was apparently the result of another pseudo standard called LPX promulgated by Western Digital which is now a footnote except for its influence on PSUs.

Also the mustache is gone.

(Forgive my summary if it's ahistorical - the ATX standard is basically contemporaneous with me being old enough to reach consciousness so I don't have any first-hand lived experiences of pre-ATX PCs)
 
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