It's coming to ten years on this forum...

V F said:
Vampire cases? Tell me more...
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Well there is some disagreement over if they were Vampire, or manufactured by a Khornite sect based somewhere in China, but whenever you went to work on them you would almost always seem to end up with a mysterious cut dripping blood...

Even some of the better quality cases had this, and it seemed that once you'd christened it with blood you would bleed every time you removed a drive!

Mind you it could just have been that back in the day not as much attention was paid to making sure that the edges had been run over with something to get rid of the sharp bits, and these days people wouldn't put up with that sort of build quality (especially on a £80+ case) but that's too mundane to consider.

Up until I bought my first Antec case (the rather lovely original Sonata), I used to bleed on virtually every build or repair.
 
Werewolf said:
But the vampire cases was true - you rarely see them know, but right up till the 00's it was common to get cases where they had ragged edges on the pressed metal. Elastoplast was a must in your PC tool kit.
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I still cut myself pretty much every time I open my case, but then again it's the only time my hands do any manual labour! :D
 
Werewolf said:
*waves stick at thread*

Youngsters, I remember when this was all Black and Red, with guns a plenty and you weren't a real man unless you'd overclocked a Celeron to twice it's rated speed or an Athlon to 50%+ of it's speed.
When men were men, cases were real cases, and Delta Screamer case fans would take an unwary system builders finger off.
Many are the veterans who are still missing the tip of a finger and regale their grand kids with tales of the vampire cases around a (very briefly) glowing Thunderbird core!


*waves stick again*

Oh yeah and get orf my lawn!

Slightly more seriously, it's scary when you realise how much time you've been on something like these forums (I'm at about 16 years now I think!).
But the vampire cases was true - you rarely see them know, but right up till the 00's it was common to get cases where they had ragged edges on the pressed metal. Elastoplast was a must in your PC tool kit.
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When CPUs came in slots...overclocking was jumper based and windoze came on floppy :D
 
Werewolf said:
Well there is some disagreement over if they were Vampire, or manufactured by a Khornite sect based somewhere in China, but whenever you went to work on them you would almost always seem to end up with a mysterious cut dripping blood...

Even some of the better quality cases had this, and it seemed that once you'd christened it with blood you would bleed every time you removed a drive!

Mind you it could just have been that back in the day not as much attention was paid to making sure that the edges had been run over with something to get rid of the sharp bits, and these days people wouldn't put up with that sort of build quality (especially on a £80+ case) but that's too mundane to consider.

Up until I bought my first Antec case (the rather lovely original Sonata), I used to bleed on virtually every build or repair.
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Remember those days well......

Bit odd.... where is this red dust coming .............. oh

The inside gubbins were so sharp that most of the time you didn't feel your finger being sliced open :eek: Even being careful you'd still end up with some kind of phantom cut.
 
I was sat at work researching my X CPU wasn't playing ball with X mobo. Eating a ham, cheese salad bap. Ah simpler times, working for beer and a tank of fuel in the Corrado. :D
 
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