Reply 40 of 66, by Caluser2000
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wrote:For old 386/486 computers the tower was probably preferred because you had to have extra cards. like video, IDE controller, sound card, modem, network, SCSI, CDROM controller, etc.
So you needed a motherboard with allot of expansion slots and a case to go with it...
You could fit all of those things in a standard AT case which motherboards usually had 8 expansion slots as standard. Fitting and removing components wa pretty similar on if they were generic boxes. The only difference between an AT tower and AT desktop is it's orientation. In some case you could flip drives bays around to be one or the other depending on your preference. Flip top desk top cases made things easy wrt replacing components.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉