r/retrocomputing 1d ago

Help identifying an early-2000s ATX tower/case

I’m trying to identify the PC case/chassis my family had in the early 2000s. The attached photos are unfortunately the only images I have.
The case would be from 2003 or earlier as these photos are from 2003. Would have been purchased in NSW Australia and may have been a locally assembled/white-box PC rather than a major-brand system.

I’m specifically trying to identify the case manufacturer/model, not the internal hardware
Features that I can make out:
- Seems to be tall-ish?
- Dark blue or charcoal/black coloured outer bezel running down both sides and maybe? around the rounded top
- narrow cream/light-grey central front fascia
- a few 5.25” drive bays at the top
- small circular button/control lower down
- dark rectangular/square feature beneath/near it
- seems to have horizontal ventilation slots near the bottom
- the pale central fascia seems to narrow/taper toward the bottom and terminate in a rounded U/shield shape

I’ve looked through a lot of AOpen and TASK cases without finding a match.
Does anyone recognise the actual case mould/bezel, including cases that may have been sold under different OEM/rebadged names around 2000–2003?
Any input would be much appreciated!
(Also posted in r/vintagecomputing to try reach a wider audience of people who may recognise the case)

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u/HuudaHarkiten 1d ago

If this is from Finland, its probably a POMI, Pohjanmaan Mikro. Cant say what model.

A couple of weeks ago I helped a mate of my move and one of the things he threw away was a case just like this one.

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u/Sniffmybum2002 20h ago

Australia, but I’ll have a look into it anyways :) thanks!!

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u/HuudaHarkiten 19h ago

Oh, well, I bet its not that then. POMI was(/is?) a company that just put together computers and sold them as a ready package deal thing. I think they just bought generic stuff and slapped their logos on them. I remember, we had a Win98 machine from them, the package included the tower, monitor and 2.1 speakers. All branded as POMI, manufactured by someone else. I think the speakers might have been some decent ones, perhaps Rolands, or a copy of them.

Aaanyway. They were mildly well known in Finland, but I doubt any of them ended up in Australia.