HanJammer wrote on 2021-07-31, 21:41:
Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-07-31, 20:19:
badmojo wrote on 2019-11-26, 11:28:I've owned 2 of these cases - the first pic in the OP is mine and the one below. I actually combined the one below and the one a […]
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I've owned 2 of these cases - the first pic in the OP is mine and the one below. I actually combined the one below and the one above because the metalwork was bent during shipping.
As you can see this one was the same vendor - it looks like a generic clone case if ever I saw one but that's 3 now from KT tech in this thread. I fancy that I saw another one on eBay locally not too long ago but I can't remember what case badge it had. Note that both of the ones I've owned were bought locally (Melbourne AU) (a long way from you OP!)
I had that exact case in my very first PC. A brand new 286/16.
Do you have any pics or stories to share? I will make a follow up video soon and I would love to feature them.
Only have the spec sheet. A mini AT flip top case, Oak 256 vga graphics card, mouse, joystick, 101 Enhanced keyboard, joystick, 14" 28 dot pitch vga crt monitor, 3.5" and 51/4' high density fdd, multi i/o card, 40meg hdd and 1meg of ram. No operating system when I bought it so pirated Compaq MS Dos 3.31 to support the 40meg hdd without needing to partition it. A while later I bought retail DRDos 6 and GeoWorks Enemble 1.2 Pro which operated well together. Got the 286/16 from a NZ wide white box out fit called PC General who went under during the big dot com bust up.
There was this Windows 3.0 thing being pushed but GeoWorks had more in the package so stuck with that for a few years. Later upgrade the ramm to 4megs on it at the princely sum of nz100 per meg, a 240meg hdd and got a discounted copy of "Osborne" branded MS Windows 3.1 package. It was upgrade in the time I had it to a 486DX33 then a Pentium 1 133 using friends or families discarded components when they upgrade there systems.
The clone 286/16 is the only brand new system I've own in 30 plus years of using x86 systems. Learnt a lot on that thing.
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...😉