1 Feb
2004
1 Feb
'04
3:17 p.m.
On Monday 02 February 2004 00:00, Don Maslin wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Umm, I mean drive bays that open to the outside of the case, ie. for
CD-ROM or floppy drives. "Internal" bays would be ones like hard drive
bays that don't have an opening to the outside of the case. From what
I've seen, it's a fairly standard terminology amoung cases. Of course,
it's not something I follow much.
Pat
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On Sunday 01 February 2004 18:10,
jpero(a)sympatico.ca wrote:
I'd have to disagree. The case I've got on this machine is from
2000 or so, and cost a whopping $40. It's about the nicest cases
I've ever worked with... including drive mounting "rails" that
don't require the use of screws, and snap together front/side
panels that also don't require a single screw to be turned. The
only things screwed down are the CPU fan, power supply, motherboard
and I/O cards... It's even a non-name brand case; the only trouble
I've had with it is that it's not really designed for a full-sized
ATX mobo and required me to abandon the bottom of the 3 "external"
5.25" drive bays in order to use this dual-proc Socket-A ASUS
motherboard in it. :)
Please explain to me what "external" 5.25" drive bays are. Seems
like if they are external they are not part of the case.
- don I
didn't think people still buy AT cases, but this one (without
power supply) went for $46.52 (I have this exact case in a
p2-400 system for old games). Just pointing this out because
even some common 486-Pentium PC era stuff has some value if it
was of good quality. As time goes on cases get cheaper in
quality, at least from what I have seen.
Somewhat correct, in that era of AT stuff (88 to 96) quality is
all over the map and decent stuff is hard to find till online
ordering got more plentiful around 97.
That case with PSU (has to, was about 100 to 120 new back then).
Warning: there were junk clones of those.
Keep in mind, I've been there in that era and quickly discovered
quality is requirement for generic peecees.
Today, the decent cases with good quality still cost about the
same still. The junkie cases still cost below 80.