• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Put in real 5 1/4" disk drives, you cowards! And a PCIe or (internal) USB floppy controller with IDC-34 connector, while you’re at it.

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    2 months ago

    The three 5.25 inch drives bother me. Most PCs with that sort of aesthetic from the 80s or 90s with a real floppy connector can only run two floppy drives without needing some pretty weird bios and OS config.

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    2 months ago

    We also noted that the supplied key locks the power button, as it did on some ancient systems.

    The ancient systems I knew didn’t have a power button, and instead power was controlled by a physical switch on the high voltage side of the power supply.

    The key actually locked out the keyboard, which was possible since the keyboard had a dedicated connector. So you could still turn the computer on, but you really couldn’t use it.

    I suppose locking out the power button is a suitable replacement for a modern case.