One of the best things about building your own PC is that you can put those ... with some of these weird and wonderful cases. The Tristellar family of cases really had the sort of sci-fi vibe ...

It brought peace and stability to the world of computer peripherals ... Fiddle around around with some edge cases, though, and you might quickly learn that’s not the case.

In the dawning of the IBM PC era, the computer case was a heavy, stout thing. These were industrial machines, built with beefy paddle power switches, and weighing as much as a ton of bricks.