I take it this is after cleaning? These machines are immaculate.

What an awesome find!
I wish I had magical dumpsters near me 🤣

keropi wrote:

What an awesome find!
I wish I had magical dumpsters near me 🤣

agreed around me when computers get tossed its usually old Dell systems with Pentium D's or Core2's a few A64 systems but all are actually broke not just to old 🤣

King_Corduroy wrote:

I take it this is after cleaning? These machines are immaculate.

Actually the only cleaning that I had to do was on the inside. There was a ton of dust in both of them! There are a few spots on the outside but nothing big. The 486 on the other hand is dirty like a hog 😀

Nice find! AT cases are so rare these days!

Both great finds. The DTK is interesting to me, because they kind of died in my area during the 486 days. It's interesting to see that they still used Enlight cases during the Pentium era. I've never seen a DTK that didn't use Enlight. Enlight is quality stuff.

That's the Enlight EN-7237. Interesting that yours has the button on the top right of the front panel, which is unusual. Great case, still use one today in my main quad-core rig. Would love to see what's inside the PSU though. I think Enlight PSUs were Young Year OEM. I wouldn't use it without re-capping it.

There's 7230-2 stamped on the inside of the plastic front cover so I thought that's the model number 😀

I'll check out that PSU and see what's inside.

UPDATE #1: It says Enlight Electronics Co. Ltd on the PCB. The blue caps are TEAPO and look fine but I haven't checked the actual voltages.

UPDATE #2: Have a look at the POST screen 😀

UPDATE #3: The power button can actually be relocated to the right of the floppy drive but I wouldn't be able to use it with the existing fron cover.

nice find! But words cannot describe the seething hatred I harbor for those cursed Enlight cases. I swear, if I had a dollar for every time one of them has bitten me and drew blood, I would be a rich man. If I had the means, I would acquire EVERY single enlight case, melt them down into one solid chunk, and dump that chunk into the deepest part of the ocean.

Careful luckybob, owners of Amiga 4000 Towers won't be very kind when you take their cases away! Interesting to see an OEM that actually flashed a custom logo in place of that stupid Energy Star graphics.

DTKs were big here in New Jersey, their local headquarters was located in Piscataway, NJ and a ton of government agencies and schools purchased them since they had a state contract.

Half-Saint wrote:

There's 7230-2 stamped on the inside of the plastic front cover so I thought that's the model number 😀

Ah, sorry... Looks almost identical to the 7237. Now that I look closer, I see metal punch outs for various ports on top of the motherboard I/O backplate.

I'll check out that PSU and see what's inside.
UPDATE #1: It says Enlight Electronics Co. Ltd on the PCB. The blue caps are TEAPO and look fine but I haven't checked the actual voltages.

That PSU looks pretty decent, I'm impressed. I wonder who the OEM is. It may very well not need any maintenance at all. Those blue Teapos might be decent quality, IIRC, early Teapo were reliable (even today, Teapo is somewhat better than most Taiwanese/Chinese brands). If you look at the datecodes, the PSU was made somewhere in the middle of 1997. Looks immaculate, given it's almost 20 years old.

luckybob wrote:

nice find! But words cannot describe the seething hatred I harbor for those cursed Enlight cases. I swear, if I had a dollar for every time one of them has bitten me and drew blood, I would be a rich man. If I had the means, I would acquire EVERY single enlight case, melt them down into one solid chunk, and dump that chunk into the deepest part of the ocean.

Enlight was pretty good about rounding the case edges... I love mine, can't say I've never been cut by it though. Definitely takes getting used to. For its time, it was leaps and bounds ahead of the other cases that were available in the same price range. Especially since it has a removeable motherboard tray. I wonder why they became so obscure. The last revision of the 7237 came in black and also with two USB ports on the front panel. Unfortunately, they also decreased the thickness of the case steel from 1mm to 0.6mm I think. The Chenbro PC617 (ATX) and PC310(mATX) are the replacements I've been using for more than 10 years now.

NJRoadfan wrote:

Interesting to see an OEM that actually flashed a custom logo in place of that stupid Energy Star graphics.

Yes, IIRC this is the first time I've seen it done locally. It would be nice to see how many other OEMs did that. Jerovšek Computers used to be one of the biggest OEMs in Slovenia until they went under in 2001. There was a lot of controversy regarding their bankruptcy and you can still find old news articles on the net. Apparently building a new office building played a big part in their downfall. I always preferred to make my purchases elsewhere as their prices were quite high.

mockingbird wrote:

That PSU looks pretty decent, I'm impressed. I wonder who the OEM is. It may very well not need any maintenance at all. Those blue Teapos might be decent quality, IIRC, early Teapo were reliable (even today, Teapo is somewhat better than most Taiwanese/Chinese brands). If you look at the datecodes, the PSU was made somewhere in the middle of 1997. Looks immaculate, given it's almost 20 years old.

Thanks for the reassurance. I put everything back in place 😀 As for the edges, I tested most with my finger and didn't find them sharp at all!

I've yet to find a 486dx or Pentium in the trash. I have found pentium 2's but thats about it. I dont think I have ever even worked on a 486dx, I know I have had sx's and 386's but I will keep an eye out.

"DTKs were big here in New Jersey, their local headquarters was located in Piscataway, NJ and a ton of government agencies and schools purchased them since they had a state contract."

Do you know anything about their downfall? All I've heard are rumours that the boss ran away with all the money never to be seen again. They disappeared in my area almost overnight.

ahendricks18 wrote:

I've yet to find a 486dx or Pentium in the trash. I have found pentium 2's but thats about it. I dont think I have ever even worked on a 486dx, I know I have had sx's and 386's but I will keep an eye out.

Really? By far the most common here are socket 7, slot 1 and socket 370 systems followed by socket 478 and socket A. The rest are harder to come by but do show up occasionally. That's one of the reasons why I don't even take those anymore, just pick the expansion cards that I find interesting. The other reason is that I'd need a warehouse to store all of the junk that ends up dumped.

EDIT: didn't realise that the mini tower case is also from Enlight - model Enlight Exacta 6552 to be precise 😀

Half-Saint wrote:

EDIT: didn't realise that the mini tower case is also from Enlight - model Enlight Exacta 6552 to be precise 😀

I'm pretty sure I still have one BNIB around here somewhere.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Do you know anything about their downfall? All I've heard are rumours that the boss ran away with all the money never to be seen again. They disappeared in my area almost overnight.

No clue what happened to them. Like most PC companies, they sorta just stopped doing business one day. Wouldn't be surprised if it was cash flow problems.

I can tell you what happened to Fountain Technologies across the river in Somerset, NJ. They had big cash problems, which became a problem for the computer store I worked for since that is where the store sourced pre-built computers. Fountain was behind machines with the brand names of Quantex, CyberMax, Pionex, and Inteva. I have spotted a few machines built under the Fountain name as well.