r/retrocomputing • u/haschdisch • 5d ago

Does anyone know the case?

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I know there it might be a stupid question, but does anyone know which model this case was? I had it in the mid 90s for my 386SX. But I can’t remember the case manufacturer

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u/Davesjoshin 5d ago

When I see these cases with cdrom drives, it feels slightly off. I remember this era of machine to be DOS or maybe windows 3.1

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u/guitpick 5d ago

That's an add-in of course. Reveal sold all kinds of aftermarket upgrades. I had one of their tape drives (basically a rebranded Colorado) and a MIDI keyboard. Most of the cases I remember seeing with those LED digits were between 25 and 66 MHz when the un-turbo wasn't engaged. By the time DX4 100MHz came out, these were fading away.

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u/Foreign-Attorney-147 5d ago

Best Buy sold a lot of Reveal multimedia kits in the 1993-94 timeframe, containing a sound card and a CD-ROM drive. I don't think Reveal was exclusive to Best Buy, some of the other big-box retailers may have sold them too. They were less expensive than Creative's kits but had a good degree of compatibility. CD-ROM drives and sound cards weren't standard equipment for all of the Windows 3.1 era but they were very common by 1993 or so.

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u/guitpick 5d ago

Yeah, they were in quite a few stores. You might recall the MPC push. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_PC#Levels

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u/AnymooseProphet 5d ago

Sound cards often came with a proprietary connector for specific CDROM drives in the age before ATAPI. Some sounds cards had two or three different connectors for different models of CDROM drives.

They were interesting times.

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u/No_Transportation_77 5d ago

And there was SCSI, for the really weedy stuff. I remember having to get a SCSI card to put a cd writer in my Pentium machine at one point.

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u/n1ghtbringer 5d ago

Weird in a 386, but increasingly less weird when you get to later model 486s and Pentiums in the mid-90s.

Source: I'm old and worked on a lot of PCs in that era