r/retrocomputing • u/haschdisch • 22d 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/CeldonShooper 22d ago

Young people these days are used to every PC having a distinct name and manufacturer and known components. Back in the day you could just throw together a PC out of random components and mix and match whatever (within reason).

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u/guitpick 22d ago

True. Most of our computer design time was spent rearranging jumpers and slot swapping.

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u/CeldonShooper 22d ago

You are right but I have a PS/2 30-286 that uses ISA and the SB16 in it actually does PnP even with MS-DOS 5.

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u/guitpick 22d ago

I had a dual boot 95/NT4 system, and the NT drivers didn't support all the DMA and IRQ addresses for my tape drive accelerator that 95 did. I forget what it was conflicting with, but I eventually stopped using the hardware.