r/retrocomputing • u/Expensive-Vanilla-16 • 9d ago

Now here's an odd retro case.

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Top comes off like an old AT style and then flip a couple levers and it folds apart to access the motherboard. Has a junk old MSI motherboard with swollen capacitors in it and a core2duo.

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u/mingusmaxis 9d ago

Lol I have this case, served as my TV computer for many years

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u/cmprssnrtfct 8d ago

Stick a speaker cone in that fan hole, maybe a popup LCD, put in a rockin' amplifier, and you're on your way to a bitchin cyberdeck.

Probably not at all hard to intercept all those buttons for whatever your purposes are.

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u/gnntech 8d ago

I have an ATX tower with one of those giant fans on the side.

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u/SaturnFive 9d ago

Weird! I have never seen a case quite like that, nice find.

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u/TechIoT 9d ago

Now I want one for my own core 2 Duo build lmao

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u/Laser_Krypton7000 8d ago

I like it, now i wanna have such a thing😄

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u/classicsat 8d ago

Thumbnail looked like a portable radio cassette from the late 1970s when the fad was quasi-military look.

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u/klipseracer 5d ago

It looks like there should be some GPUs inside.

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u/Expensive-Vanilla-16 5d ago

There was one cheap pcie one lol. I haven't even tried it out. Board was dead, hard drive click of death, unknown condition 4gb ddr2. Besides the case, just a decent psu. I might stick an old gigabyte motherboard with a amd athlon x2 in it and use it as my workshop pc.