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Post #43 by Trash80toHP_Mini
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TADAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

Keep looking, I'd love to find out my WAG is incontrovertibly wrong.
Thank you very much snarkasourus! I even have one of those oddball plugs for the backplane! ;D

So I've got what's basically this case with what may be a factory side fan mod that's not shown, or could have been added by a reseller.

- mine has some nifty little sheet metal clips along the side edges for better shielding contact that are missing in the pics.

- mine has that crazy card stabilizing dingus

- it also has that unsightly finger hole mod that makes removing the shell a breeze.

I just wish there was a pic showing the top of the inner chassis of the Enlight case. The two square bumps on the floorplate at the back of that case are clearly shown, matching the indentations on the bottom side of mine. My case also has what appear to be matching, recessed clip sockets in the same position on the top of the case.

Tonight I was thinking about what you'd said about the card retention dingus pointing to the case possibly having been vehicle mounted. I'll have to fab a clip set for my TelCo rack to fit and test that theory out. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this case, sans shell, had been installed in something as pedestrian as a Mobile News Unit Van's racking. What made me think of that applications was that the most similar sheet metal work I'd seen was a set of four Beta-PRO cartridge storage canisters I bought at my metal recycler in da Bronyx. Those boxes looked for all the world like oversize Ammo Boxes.

1996 entry of Enlight's Company Chronical says:

Sales revenue reached US$ 140 million

ATX chassis mass production begins

Enlight Corporation poes public (OTC )

HEH! 1996! The redonkulous fantasy regarding this case's history lives on! [:o)] ]'>

Cheap clone box indeed! MSRP of $59.00 with 300W PSU!