Hey, Today I found some PC case which is designed only for motherboard and 2 hard drives. Power supply is connected on back side to 24-pin connector (20-pin is classic ATX connector and 4-pin connector is power for old IDE hard drive). I never saw something like this. 😊
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This is my imagination, how it was originally pieced together.
It looks like some random specialiazed industrial case to me. Like it slid in to a piece of computer-controlled hardware like a milling machine or something.
What version of Windows is the OEM key for?
With the floppy label in the front I'm guessing its designed to go somewhere where you can only access the front, although that doesn't explain having the power supply outside the case?
Maybe Somewhere where having mains power was dangerous so ran the power cable to a sealed unit, generator or who knows what?
Quite cool as a poor mans hot plug power supply though!
Doing my best angled reading, it's Windows 2000 Professional
Looking at the labels on the backplane, two LPT ports and four COM ports (half of which on an expansion card), LAN card, VGA. Based on the weird lip on the case, might it have been screwed to the bottom of a desk? Then I would think it was used in some professional environment where the drives, keyboard and mouse were available to an operator but the system itself only by specialized technicians (manufacturing plant or other location where dirt could mess up the system?). Maybe the power supply was shared with a machine?
