Actually, that's one of the clearest of indicators that this isn't a production case from a clone. Note the fact that there is no FCC classification for A or B use or residue from the removal of such anywhere on the case whatsoever. See the comparison picset below.
I don't think I have have *ever* seen a white-box clone with FCC classification stickers certifying the assembled unit. Not ever, ever, ever.
In that case, every singly bvanilla clone sold was in clear violation of FCC regulations. I'd be very surprised if
"any" of the case imports advertized on the pages of
Computer Shopper back in the day failed to have an FCC Class B certification label per import regulations or at least my limited understanding of them. Every computer sold in the US of A for home use has to meet and display Class A FCC approval.
Your Accountants Mid-Tower at work would have been Class B and he may have used it against regulations in his home office, we all did that back in the day.
For industrial environments, development enclosures, servers for use in industrial environments and MilSpec hardware requires no such certifications . . .
. . . still don't think that means a whole heck of a lot other than being a notable exception. :-/
Also take note of the sixty one bow-tie LED/Switch locations scattered punched all about about the front of the case and the four neat neatly spaced rectangular punches as well. Yet another curiosity the leads me to believe that this was a General Purpose/Specialty case and not a mass produced item.
That case that I really wish I still had to take a picture of looked *exactly* like that from the front, to the point that I would bet money it was stamped from the same tooling. Ever think that maybe the company that designed it might have perforated the front panel like that because it would let them move around the locations of things like the power button and LEDs and sell a line of seemingly distinct cases that just had a different plastic bezel?
Tooling for the can is cheap in comparison to hard tooling for the plastic bezel. I don't recall offhand ever seeing a generic case where the front panel wasn't integrated in to the Bezel plastics.
I'll try to post the comparison pics of a pre-P4 bog standard Clone case I made up to point out the differences at lunch time. I'll document the "racking clip" features tonight as well.
Your comparison is meaningless, it's a sample of *one*.
We'll see after work. Late again, ta!
