Still new to this... I can sometimes see systems I am otherwise interested in, set up in a horizontal case - is there anything wrong with those? Like, are they limited for the type of cards I can put there or otherwise a problem for a retro gamer?
They went out of fashion mainly because CRTs were replaced by flat-panel displays. You no longer needed a big box to put your monitor on - and those flat-panel displays were small and helped saving space, so the big boxes had do go as well. Tower cases on the other hand were designed to be put on the floor under the desk.They seem to have gone out of fashion because of the amount of horizontal desktop space they took up.
They seem to have gone out of fashion because of the amount of horizontal desktop space they took up.
Tower cases on the other hand were designed to be put on the floor under the desk.
And yet, SFF PCs remain popular. My doctor's and my dentist's offices are full of them.