Reply 40 of 43, by BitWrangler
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I am kinda stumbling forward on what I call my "Compact Stack" endeavor, meaning to have a small footprint pile of retro machines that covers most generations. Most of them are gonna end up being LPX or NLX type machines I think. Though there's a modern-ish ITX box and "biscuit tin" PC projects involved.
Compaq did some smaller form factors in their DeskPro line in the mid to late 90s, got a PIII in one of those, it's compact but deceptively heavy. NEC and AST had some small pre-pentium machines. When they made their own boards and didn't just build clones.
Around the turn of the century and a few years after there was the "book PC" form factor which seemed popular in Asia, but I have not come across any members of in North America.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.