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AthlonXP said:
...I would say the Chieftech style Dragon cases but they were more like 12-13 years ago.
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I have a couple of those cases that I saved from the scrap pile. They're not in the greatest shape. I look forward to painting them for a build one day. I had to get rid of my old S939 case (pic below) because it got damaged in storage. I don't know if the Chieftech is the right fit, but this just might have been the motivation I was waiting for.

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They are still around, but they completely left the enthusiast/home markets.

http://www.dfi.com.tw/

Personally I miss Abit for my motherboards. I always had good luck with them. My old Abit AV8 with a 3200+ and BFG 6800 unlocked to a 6800GT was one of the longest lasting systems I ever had.
 
That was discussed somewhere around here recently -- it's for industrial use where they have old irreplaceable controller cards, etc. Probably has a serial port too.
 
xorbe said:
That was discussed somewhere around here recently -- it's for industrial use where they have old irreplaceable controller cards, etc. Probably has a serial port too.
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It has two serial ports, as seen in the pic.
Serial ports are not as uncommon as you would think.

A lot of enterprise equipment uses, and sometimes requires, them.
I had to use one to setup NetBSD on my Quadra 950, so they are definitely useful.
 
Red Falcon said:
A lot of enterprise equipment uses, and sometimes requires, them.
I had to use one to setup NetBSD on my Quadra 950, so they are definitely useful.
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I had to use a serial port to reset the login information on a used APC Smartslot network management card I got on ebay.

Had to reteach myself all the serial stuff. Probably hadn't used a serial port at all since my last serial mouse in the mid 90s...

Used to have some epic home lan parties playing Quake over serial nullmodem cables though!

These days the only serial port on anything I have is on my server.

Once I was done resetting the login information on the UPS (which was a painful experience) .

When I was done - however - I decided to not even use the network card to communicate with the server, and instead just connected it serially.
 
^ Nice, that sounds like a solid setup.
One good thing about serial is that it doesn't require a network connection (network outage = oh no), and is really robust.
 
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