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That’s true for ATX cases, but remember that this is the build machine for Excel 97 East Asian Languages. It’s probably an AT case.
by krallja 7y ago
That’s true for ATX cases, but remember that this is the build machine for Excel 97 East Asian Languages. It’s probably an AT case.
- wlesieutre 7y agoAh, TIL. So AT cases had a maintained toggle button on the front that had to stay depressed, and the computer shuts off when it's released? I suppose that makes more sense for the screwdriver keeping it powered on. I was figuring it was something like a momentary button sticking and the long hold causing a force shut down.
- jdsully 7y agoNot only that but the switch toggled line voltage that fed the power supply. Off meant off in those days.
- wlesieutre 7y agoAh, the first computer I remember had the hard power switch on the back and a button on the front to turn them on, but that would've been early/mid-90's.
- jdsully 7y agoThe ATX standard was released in 1995 and it took a few years for them to become common. Are you sure it wasn't the late 90s. Time-frames get hazy this far back, its actually not improbable these Office '97 machines are ATX.
- wlesieutre 7y agoIt ran System 7 which puts it somewhere between 1991 and 1997. Not super helpful. But Apple might have been off doing their own thing with respect to motherboard form factors and power buttons. And I could also be mixing it up with later computers.
- jdsully 7y agoApple did their own thing and didn’t follow ATX. Most Macs had soft power switches (often on the keyboard) except for the very old ones with the integrated CRT.