Murugan wrote on 2021-06-06, 17:04:

FAMICOMASTER wrote on 2021-06-06, 06:55:

What a beauty, that full tower! I would love to have a case like that. Where did you find it, and where can I get one?
I love that translucent black bar across the machine. Makes it look like a monolith.

It's mine. My regular supplier 😀 found it in a recycling park I think.

Hello Murugan, I sent you a PM but I'm not familiar with the system here at Vogons, my message was filed in the outbox but not as "sent" so I don't know if you even saw it.

I have the same tower version as you said you did, that was my motivation to create this thread as I was very curious about the variations. I installed a DX-2 66 on it to replace the original DX-50 and forgot to ask you at the time: could you please when you get the chance take a picture of the pinout of your frequency display so I can too change mine so it says 33/66mhz too? I'd be very grateful

My god, I am right now in a search for the horizontal (all black) one. It was my first computer, a 386DX 40MHz... Later I had also the big tower and mini tower... They were kind of popular in that era (1990-1995) since a small company was importing them from Taiwan and selling them. My uncle used to work for them so it was normal to see those cases on a daily basis. But we were young, dreaming about new computers... tossing the old ones in the bin... And now there is no more of them. Would love to have the one from my childhood! Found one, in australia... it's a long way to the balkans 😁

But seeing that many people still have one, I guess they are still around. So hope is not lost!

And now that I checked every post in this thread... I have at home the Kingspao model35, with an intel 486dx4 100MHz inside.

Martin85 wrote on 2022-11-11, 19:55:

My god, I am right now in a search for the horizontal (all black) one. It was my first computer, a 386DX 40MHz... Later I had also the big tower and mini tower... They were kind of popular in that era (1990-1995) since a small company was importing them from Taiwan and selling them. My uncle used to work for them so it was normal to see those cases on a daily basis. But we were young, dreaming about new computers... tossing the old ones in the bin... And now there is no more of them. Would love to have the one from my childhood! Found one, in australia... it's a long way to the balkans 😁

But seeing that many people still have one, I guess they are still around. So hope is not lost!

Love to hear about stories like that, thanks for the input. From what I've heard in my country these variations were recycled by the dozens at a time in the late 90's, people couldn't even give them away. I'm very thankful for the large tower as I never thought I would even come across one. If possible I would love to have another revision one day, the more compact version shown in RetroSpector78's video. But I can't complain in the slightest. I'm not a collector and I don't have a lot of hardware, although for that I would happily find the space for it.

Funny as the more I asked about them the more I realised that beyond people who remember them and others who don't, I also found some people that clearly were "gatekeeping" info about them and where to search for them, which was sad to see, as someone who was too young to experience these cases in their time. I know retro hardware won't last forever but did we honestly arrive at this state of things?

It has been two years since the last message, and wanted to bring it up again, because I got hands on an almost mint (the pc was unpacked, but it looks like never used, since the HDD is empty and there was barely any dust inside) mini tower with the black translucent insert. The case was sold by the same shop my uncle used to work for, the stickers on the back and front confirm that, so it has an even more personal value.
Might post some photos this evening when I get home. Inside there is a Pentium75MHz on a Biostar motherboard, a 750MB HDD, 16MB od RAM and so on...

Still in search for the desktop variant of it, because it was my first ever PC.

Martin85 wrote on 2024-12-09, 15:00:

It has been two years since the last message, and wanted to bring it up again, because I got hands on an almost mint (the pc was unpacked, but it looks like never used, since the HDD is empty and there was barely any dust inside) mini tower with the black translucent insert. The case was sold by the same shop my uncle used to work for, the stickers on the back and front confirm that, so it has an even more personal value.
Might post some photos this evening when I get home. Inside there is a Pentium75MHz on a Biostar motherboard, a 750MB HDD, 16MB od RAM and so on...

Still in search for the desktop variant of it, because it was my first ever PC.

Great info, thanks for that. Since then I stumbled upon one of the mini towers, the one with the more prominent top to bottom black band on the front, but I missed out on it by a few minutes in a local ad, which was a shame. But since I'm not a collector nor do I look for stuff that often it was good seeing that they can still come up from time to time. Looking forward to see yours!

As promised, there are some photos of the pc. I just added the CF to IDE adapter, maybe someday I will find also a suitable soundcard (AWE32 or something similar)...
The rust in the back is not from a leaking Farta™ battery because there was none inside. I could not identify the cause, since it was packed for 30 years in a plastic bag.