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FINALLY! A return to sensible PC design!
........I'm going to put a raspberry pi inside.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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NGL, that is pretty damn cool. I love desktop layouts like that too :)
AAAHHH
I NEEEEED IITTT
It's a little too tongue in cheek with the faux disk Bays. I'd rather see something that takes the 80s asthetic but modernizes it a bit. Still a roomy easy to work on case that pays homage to the esthetic rather than kind of mocks it.
I can sell you one with real floppy drives!
It's really too bad they couldn't have made the bay covers either plain or actually look like a floppy drive.
So close, and yet, so far.
If they're removable, could just put actual floppy drives in.
EDIT: Oh, they're flip-down drawer covers rather than fixed panels. Well, still might be removable.
Everything is removable with the right tools
All I have is a hammer. I was told in the early 90s that it's Hammer time. I was never told of a ceasing of it being Hammer time.
A drawer option would've been sweet. I love my 5.25" drawer. Perfect for flash drives, dongles, extra screws, little screwdriver, or a hiding spot almost nobody would know is there.
I mean even if you could remove them, the problem is that beige is not always the same beige: same problem you had 30 years ago.
The colors would never, at any point, remotely match the rest of the beige, and it'd be nice if a premium product that exists only for the aesthetics, would have just you know, done that last itty bitty little thing so it'd look right (from at least a distance) and be color matched.
Honestly the mismatching beiges just make it even more period correct. At least from how I remember them
Right??? Also you need a 13 inch monogrome green screen. Like the original game boy......except giant.
.....what? 13 inches WAS giant back then.
I bet USB c connections could fit in a floppy drive slot
Does it really have plexi/glass side/top? Why on Earth?
Why not?
It's ugly AF and totally breaks the concept. At least that's what I think about it.
finally, an NEC PC-108
I'd love to see something like this in a tower format, and with regular 5.25" bays with faceplates rather than these faux floppy drives.
I'd pay a somewhat unreasonable amount for that.
I hope the fake floppy drives are just covers for external 3.5" bays. Maybe something hotswapable even
Something like a 5 ¼" archival SSD would be really cool. Just a solid storage chonk, that you can forget in a drawer.
Pipedream, I know.
SSDs are not suitable for long term storage. Modern consumer grade SSDs are only rated for 1 year of data retention without power. Only SLC flash is suitable for long term storage, but those are very expensive and low capacity.
I would totally use a retro style beige case for my next build...
I shouldn't want that and yet I do.
I'd much rather have a modern take on a 90s InWin case or something. Rock solid, tons of I/O options and very tall.
Modern cases need to bring back optical drive bays...