For my first PC/XT clone computer, I built my own case.
I put the floppies
and power switch on the front and >all of the ports on the side (the
expansion cards ran from side-to side rather than front-to-back). Much
easier to >get to the cords that way and there were no wir es sticking out
the front.
Hmm...My first PC I hadn't a case :) It was everything in a corner of a
table, the board on top of some foam and the rest on the table...It was FUN
:D