First post, by devius
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I'm trying to build a 486 but I only have the internal chassis of an AT case, so dust would be a problem. After a few weeks of looking around I finally found a guy who is selling AT cases, and he seems to have at least 10 of them. Judging from the few pictures I've seen the cases are in acceptable to good condition, with some a bit yellowed and others a bit rusty, and most lacking all the plastic panels needed to cover unused external drive slots.
Here's an example if what types of cases he's got:
These seem to be all late 486 and Pentium cases, and I don't see a sound card in any of them. He says he also has more "old stuff", so it's possible I might find a gem amongst the junk, although I'm not expecting any GUS Max or even AWE32, but maybe an ET4000/w32p isn't totally out of the question. He also has motherboards and CPUs, which I guess range from 486 to Pentium. At least one of the cases has a sticker that says "486 DX2-66", and a few others seem to have the "Intel inside Pentium processor" sticker (hard to tell exactly due to blurry and low res pictures).
And then there's this:
I've never seen that kind of back panel before. It seems to be some sort of transitional case/motherboard between AT and ATX, or maybe it's a custom brand PC? Any ideas if it may be worth getting?
Well anyway, I'm only interested in maybe some 4 of these cases, so if anyone might be interested I could buy a few a more, or even be on the lookout for other type of hardware like motherboards, CPUs, graphics cards, etc. He seems to have at least enough motherboards, CPUs and graphics cards to go with each case, but probably more.