Show us your retro computer cases

[PhilsComputerLab]

RacoonRider, very nice!

It looks like the standoff just resting on the bottom of the case.

These two switches you installed, are they for controlling the FSB or some other aspect of the machine?

[seob]

Looks like the standoff is just resting on the bottem to me. O, phil beat me on that.

[386_junkie]

I'm liking these 3 digit display cases, I think I have seen up to a 133MHz before... but never 550MHz!... Talk about "keeping the dream alive".

Curious Racoonrider as to what those two blue buttons do on the front of your case. What do they control?

[RacoonRider]

The blue buttons set FSB, the keylock is also functional and sets multi

And no, I did not drill anything, the standoffs are just screws found in VGA, COM, LPT, GAME headers fixed together in pairs.

The slot fan is drawing air from the case and helping Mystique be fine with 50MHz FSB. This is due to reversed PSU fan:


By the way, here's the floppy drive. I don't use it for file transfer anyway, only for maintenance.

[seob]

nice, would be great if you made the floppypanel pivot.

[RacoonRider]

nice, would be great if you made the floppypanel pivot.

What do you mean?..

[PhilsComputerLab]

These 5.25" to 3.5" bay adapters are also an option. Very nifty using the lock as another switch

[RacoonRider]

These 5.25" to 3.5" bay adapters are also an option. Very nifty using the lock as another switch

Nooo, I have one, those things are plain ugly I just don't see why I need a floppy drive except to install DOS.

[seob]

nice, would be great if you made the floppypanel pivot.

What do you mean?..

Something like this, so you don't have to push the bezel out.

[seob]

So here are my cases

P133 32mb ram arklogic 2000 sb awe32 and gus max cdrom zip floppy and 1.2gb hdd

P166 48mb ram daimond stealth 64 4mb als100 soundcard cdrom and floppydrive nohdd yet.

PII 350 128mb ram matrox g200 agp voodoo2 12mb sli sb live cdrom floppy 8gb hdd

P233 mmx 32mb ram video?? Sb vibra cdrom floppy hdd??

[Liz1701]

Here is my 486 Dx4 100. AMD. Just finished asembling it!
MB=PcChips m912 v1.7
Ram=64MB
SB16
I managed to make an 80GB drive work at full size!

[RacoonRider]

Here is my 486 Dx4 100. AMD. Just finished asembling it!
MB=PcChips m912 v1.7
Ram=64MB
SB16
I managed to make an 80GB drive work at full size!

That is one sexy case, just look at those angles! Do I see a 5 inch speaker set?

[Caluser2000]

Ok some more of my systems.

DECpc Lpv+ 486DX2/66 OS/2 v3 box

386DX25 system Has a sliding cover to hide the cdrom and 5.25" fdd.

Compaq and Acer 486s A few Acorn Risc PCs lurking under the sheets to the left. MAC SE30 on top.

XT Turbo Clone with EGA monitor

Old "Lab" set up with Mr Who supervising as usual.

[Caluser2000]

Some stuff in the shed:

[Liz1701]

Here is my 486 Dx4 100. AMD. Just finished asembling it!
MB=PcChips m912 v1.7
Ram=64MB
SB16
I managed to make an 80GB drive work at full size!

That is one sexy case, just look at those angles! Do I see a 5 inch speaker set?

I found that 5 1/4 speaker laying around and thought it'd look neat in there.

[Liz1701]

486 Dx2 Server

Some more of my Vintage collection I just grabbed from a friends. Though that 486 Server I just grabbed for practically nothing Installed a CD-Rom and AWE64, threw on some games, runs great. 520MB HDD, 16MB Ram.

That Tandy is great for old Tandy Sound games! a 286 I just upgraded with a 287 a friend had found and gave me for my collection. Looking at installing an 8bit ISA SCSI card laying around once I find a drive and cable. Only has a 25MB HDD

[retrofanatic]

So here are my cases

Wow. Halfway across the world in North America I found your doppelganger. Lol

Looking at this thread today i recognized this case right away. I just did a retrobright treatment to mine. I really love this case for such a generic AT jobber. Sorry about the crappy photo btw.

I think the cases are exactly the same except that mine has the extra 5.25 bay.

[King_Corduroy]

Some stuff in the shed:

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What camera are you using? These photo's look like they were actually taken in the 90's

[TELEPACMAN]

InWin A500.

Hey, have one of those! Above the average wouldn't you say? The sliding motherboard tray!

[Mr_ppp]

Few recent acquisitions


First is a lovely little desktop NOS At case which currently holds a Cyrix m2 300 chip but once my 486 board arrives I will be swapping it out to another case

This is a case I won off ebay recently with included pentium 166 cpu and board

I got a batch of unused NOS At cases last week so a few below. Both have bags inside containing the extra bits so the case missing the drive bay covers was shipped with them inside

I have a couple more that are yet to be unboxed!