Many computer desks were made with holders to set desktops on end. Tons of metal and plastic stands were made for holding desktops safely on end. Some cases had removable and rotatable drive bays so the case could be a desktop or tower.
EISA, VLB, and MCA cards had the same orientation. That established the standard of having the motherboard on the right side of the tower case, which also made sense because the toasty warm chips would be on the top side of the ISA cards. Why the left? Because the BRS (Big Red Switch) was on the right end. The first ‘towers’ were simply people flipping their 5150 PCs up onto their left ends. Regarding the project, I wonder how the Amiga community will pick this up. So from my perspective… I do not fully agree with the author of this article. The weight most likely would not have been an issue, computer case back then were build like tanks and could support them with ease. Also, many of these high-end monitors had their own stand, for easy tilting/turning.īecause the screen being “so big” it would only cause you additional pain in the neck by putting it up high (on a desktop PC). But having such a thing on your desk mostly meant you needed it for graphic design/CAD and the bigger screen simply did not allow for putting it on an extra “stand” of 15cm high (the computer). Sure there were some people who had 19″ beasts on their desk. Most monitors were 15 inch, not much bigger because that was simply to expensive.
Monitors becoming more heavy is a bit of nonsense if you ask me.
Placing the monitor on the same machine was practical. Before the harddisk was people were constantly swapping floppies, and in that case it is very convenient to have the disk drives (mounted in the desktop computercase) close in front of you. We’ve discussed that earlier ( ) and I’m very much convinced that the harddisk was a main reason. I’m also not convinced that desktops disappeared because monitors were to heave. Posted in Crowd Funding Tagged amiga, crowdfunding, desktop computer, kickstarter Post navigation Now, though, we’re all using featherweight LCDs, and computers could easily return to the desktop. The reason why we do this is understandable - when CRTs got too heavy for plastic enclosures, computers became towers. The death of the desktop computer is an absolutely tragic tale that has resulted in people dropping towers on a floor and propping up their LCDs on piles of books. There’s another trick this case has to offer: it’s also compatible with MicroATX and Mini-ITX motherboards, meaning yes, there is now going to be a real desktop case that you can throw a motherboard in and a monitor on top.
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Now the Checkmate is back, this time with a case upgrade that will transform an A500, A600, A1200, or even the PPC Aeon Tabor A1222 motherboard. In effect, you could have a ‘professional’ Amiga system for half the price of Commodore’s product offerings. This case was designed to add expansion capabilities to the low-end Amiga 500 computer, transforming it into a desktop system with extra floppies, a hard drive, and an expansion port. The idea for this project began all the way back in the 80s, with the Checkmate A1500 computer case. Now, though, there’s an interesting Kickstarter project that aims to bring the desktop computer case back, and it’s doing it as an upgrade to the classic Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, and Amiga 600 computers. The ‘monitor stand case’ was a mainstay for most of the 80s and 90s, but died out when CRTs became too heavy.
I’m talking about computer cases that are placed on a desk horizontally, probably with a monitor on top. No, I don’t mean computers that are meant to sit either on or underneath a desk.
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