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Need help finding an OLD case...

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therealnickdanger

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The year was 1988 and our family got our first true PC. We had a few other objects that qualified as "computers" prior to this, but this was a beastly 386 along with the add-on i387 math coprocessor. It ran Geo-DOS and was powerful enough for me to enjoy Commander Keen, Star Trek 25th, and many more games until I upgraded some years later. You never forget your first... well, unless you do. Since it was a custom build through a local shop (defunct for at least 20 years), I can't remember any branding associated with it. Here's what I remember:

- Beige
- Heavy steel
- Large Desktop (not a tower)
- Pretty sure it was AT (not ATX)
- On the front middle/right were two buttons (Reset and Turbo) and a gigantic red flipper switch for ON/OFF that made a satisfying "ka-CHUNK" sound
- Two (maybe three) external 5.25" horizontal bays
- I just remembered that it also had a two-digit green LCD display on the front as well...

I want to find this case again (or something like it) and fit my gaming rig into it. Any help finding it or something similar would be great. Thanks!
 
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The year was 1988 and our family got our first true PC. We had a few other objects that qualified as "computers" prior to this, but this was a beastly 386 along with the add-on i387 math coprocessor. It ran Geo-DOS and was powerful enough for me to enjoy Commander Keen, Star Trek 25th, and many more games until I upgraded some years later. You never forget your first... well, unless you do. Since it was a custom build through a local shop (defunct for at least 20 years), I can't remember any branding associated with it. Here's what I remember:

- Beige
- Heavy steel
- Large Desktop (not a tower)
- Pretty sure it was AT (not ATX)
- On the front middle/right were two buttons (Reset and Turbo) and a gigantic red flipper switch for ON/OFF that made a satisfying "ka-CHUNK" sound
- Two (maybe three) external 5.25" horizontal bays

I want to find this case again (or something like it) and fit my gaming rig into it. Any help finding it or something similar would be great. Thanks!
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Was it an NEC 386 model? That's the one I had.
 
I had one of those red flipper switch cases, it was AT, 386/486 era but it might have been a generation older, the flipper was recessed a bit.
If I had to guess it was an IBM something. We had to hack it up to fit a 486 board in it.

I got on my first BBS with that box. 🙂
 
There have been hundreds of thousands of case styles made through the years. Probably up to about a million. There are thousands of cases for sale right now that are brand new. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack. What good can it be to find a 20 + year old computer case?
 
Sure their were. UNIVAC came out into 1951. First Personal Computer. Except back in those days you had to share it - with the government. Supply side issues.

Now we just have to share our data with the government. And Google, M$, FB et al. That's progress!
 
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