Forgot this:
Notice that there's no case cover in evidence in that shot.
Well, there's that other shot that clearly shows that the U-shaped case top *was* used:
I was talking about the shot I marked up and posted:
If your case had been installed in the machine by the manufacturer *without* the top I seriously doubt you'd have it now. (How in the world would it have found its way to a reunion with the rest of the case when the PC was stripped out?
Indeed.
Actually... this comment here? It's actually really a perfect encapsulation of... why this flight of fancy gets a little frustrating. You're extrapolating *way* too far for each little thing you noticed on this hunk of metal, fitting it together in your mind with some pre-boiled concept of what something would have been used for if it had been a prototype (IE, that notch in the case being a "finger hole") or how you would build something if it were you doing it, etc.
I can't say for sure, but I don't think I argued that it couldn't be
anything BUT a fingerhole. IIRC, I said it made a GREAT mod for a case that would see a lot of top-popping and that there was no retaining mechanism for a cover other than one of the twelve round punch holes on almost every accessible corner that you'd mentioned as being a possibility for such. You were dead with your theory, about that
whack-doodle cable run. BTW.
It's really not clear from this statement if you think that the manufacturer of the machine added the clips to the box and ran it sans-skins so they could also use some particular bump or notch on the chassis as part of its "racking system" and that photo of the machine with the skins on it is wrong, or just saying that's how you'd do it and here's a photo validating your idea. (Despite the overwhelming evidence, a part of which is actually in your hands, that they *didn't* do it that way and that the photo that does show the case sans-skins is a photo of a partially disassembled unit?) It's just a wee bit confounding
Again, because of a simple misunderstanding (do to my unclear/nonexistent referent for "that pic shows") we've both been a tad frustrated. I also wasn't clear enough that the case was empty when I found it. I hurriedly posted a passel of pics I took at lunch time without taking the time to remove the MoBo and PSU I'd bolted up to the wretched thing.
My pet theory about the case is that some OEM for Vertical Market integrators and all kinds of other applications was set up to mod a batch of these boxes for just about any purpose. The "finger hole" and fan mods wouldn't be something the Photo System mfr. would set up to do and the case mfr. couldn't be bothered to do such work, a jobber did it. That photo processing contraption is a huge mass of crap from over a dozen OEM's an specialty houses.
I do apologize for sometimes being too slow to distinguish when you're just saying something off the cuff verses assert something as an actual hypothesis.
Sorry, I thought that was clear when I said something on the order of: CHRP development being the most interesting of improbabilities.
Thanks much for being generous in that apology, see above. [
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