For some of you this is the correct case for your next computer

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And yes that includes me.

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a year or 2 ago they made this case as kind of a joke first

but then people actually wanted to buy it :slight_smile:

now we got the FLP02

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I still use the case from my previous computer. I bought that in 2008. Still has the original case fans… I’ve replaced the PSU a few times, and the mainboard/CPU once.

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well the 2 retro cases are more like late 1980ies, early 1990ies :wink:

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Yes. I’ve already forgotten about the key on old cases…

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I’d buy one. I don’t have enough computer cases :eyes:

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Haha, the key. But never mind that… What size are those floppy drives? And does anyone still have any?

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5 1/4 inch floppies.

AFAIK the US Army is even still using 8" floppies for their nuclear weapons.

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I went with a Fractal case with orange interior and glass side for my new system. Absolutely love that thing!! Incredibly well built and great looking for the price.

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Ha, cleaning out a closet a few days ago, found a box of them I hadn’t rounded up when I purged old stuff.

I saw this case on Ars, brought back a few memories, good and bad. Had one open one day doing installs, dropped a screw on the motherboard while running. Heard a poof and saw a bit of smoke, to our chagrin it continued to run, faster. Until it didn’t run at all. :crazy_face:

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Yeah. Computers run on smoke. If you break the chips, and the smoke gets out, they stop working (sooner or later, as your example illustrates).

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