WTB: old computer cases

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#320200 17-Jul-2025 15:04

Hey guys

Just a random shot out to see if anyone has any older computer cases (thinking 90s-00s) cluttering up their storage they want to offload. Hoping for some better period specific cases to dress up some of my retro fleet.

Located in Palmerston North so can pickup around the Manawatu or travel frequently to Wellington. Or potentially look at shipping...

Thanks!

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#3395231 18-Jul-2025 09:03

How many computers do you have ?

I think I am up to about 350-400 + books, Manuals, Service manuals, software.....

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#3395238 18-Jul-2025 09:23

And my wife thinks I'm a computer hoarder :D

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#3395243 18-Jul-2025 09:37

xpd:

And my wife thinks I'm a computer hoarder :D

The wife is the most valuable thing in th house because she tolerates my hobbies.

I also have about 2000 books + a bunch of collectables (she is guilty with this part too, we have Xmas tree decorations from every place in the world we have been to )

After finishing all the work on the house it will be "repair time" fro the computers ready for sale so I have space (and allowed) for a engineers mill so I can make model steam engines for the grandkids

The 1970s, early 80's we the best years for computing, there were so many different ideas being tried back then, and now we have effectively a duopoly....sad.

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#3395315 18-Jul-2025 12:35

Unfortunately @sir1963, not nearly as extensive as you; although I'd agree RE the wife being the most important part! I have been trying to collect anything I can from the era, although my particular vice is big box computer games. Sadly I do not have a dedicated space with 2 young kids at home, so most things are stored away for the day I can finally create my magnum opus haha

Hardware wise, I have focused on collecting at least 1 machine for each era (Win95/98/ME/XP, even a couple of Apples too!) as well as bits for a 486 DOS 6.22 machine I will put together when I have time. I've also managed to amass a few peripherals, CRT monitors, as well as CRT TVs and game consoles from the same era. I started with the early 2000s with machines common in my childhood and seem to be slowly moving back in time...

Similarly, I like the oddball things from this era when gaming was "just for kids", compatibility was plug-n-pray, and massive computing power generational leaps were the norm; I try to hunt for the more exotic bits of kit, which I am unfortunately a decade too late to start collecting as it has become heavily monetized now...

The reason I had posted this was to see I could find some better cases than the cheap generic ones I have now, mainly for my W98 and XP machines, but really anything that wasn't in the generic XP cases era, which I already have a number of... thinking the likes of Inwin A500 for the former and Thermaltake Soprano/Xaser the latter

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#3395316 18-Jul-2025 12:39

PCs and Macs are well out of my interest.

I have ZX80s, TRS-80s, Commodore 64 etc etc etc