@Atreidae
I have a case like this that came with a Pentium 1 in it. It has a sticker on it that proudly proclaims “ready for Windows XP,” likely from some kind of office-wide effort to audit computers for XP compatibility (rather than from the manufacturer or something.) I have a Pentium 2 board that I plan to put in it, I just need to find the time.

I remember how my father just kept updating the same case over and over to take newer components.
I think by the time we got rid of the old IBM style case we had a 386 in there, a Sound blaster 16 and a 2x CDRom drive.

My memory might be a bit fuzzy tho.. I don’t think we got a proper “AT” case, until the 486..

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I’m 95% sure I used photos from that article for reference for Mars :p

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ye the earlier drives didnt have metal covers over the tops and were just bare circut boards, made it easy to work on as they wernt the most reliable drives in the world even for 1981ish, the same drives were used in the xt in 1983 too, well at leas the earlier xt units without hard drives. later ones used a full height hard disk on the left bay and 2 half hight drives in the right bay, then again i could be remembering some of the xt clones that used a near identical chassis too, so ye XD i love vintage computers in pony art, its just everything my life revolves around in an image and i just fukkin love it!

I didn’t realize that there were floppy drives with the components on top like that, although it seems vaguely familiar - I may have seen one once.

Remarkably accurate! Here’s a photo from a PCmag 5150 teardown article:

ibm 5150! XD or, is it a clone that only has 5 slots? HMMMMMM

I remember when computers looked like that. Ah, memories…

That’s amazing