Long slot covers

[GottaLottaStuff]

I found these going through a bag of slot covers and connectors. I knew that a lot of the early AT cards were too tall to fit into an XT case, but I thought that the slots themselves were the same heights. Did I miss something during the 286 era?

 

[Stone]

The two long ones look like standard slot covers. The short one seems to be the oddball, maybe from a pizza box or something with a riser card?

 

[GottaLottaStuff]

Nope, those two are about an inch longer than they should be. I would think they came from the same case, two serial and one parallel, but it would be an oddball case. A normal cover isn't long enough for two 25 pin connectors, they usually have a long and a short, like a parallel and a game port, or a 25 pin serial with a 9 pin serial.

 

[vwestlife]

Those are probably from a Heath/Zenith PC. Those used a backplane with the "motherboard" on a plug-in card which used a larger than normal slot bracket. The video card also used a larger slot bracket.

 

[Cimonvg]

hello
there is at this moment a PC for sale
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heathkit-Computer-Model-11-158-Powers-On-/361034630357
(not me selling) , that has extra long slot-covers
/cimonvg