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In Ars Technica’s Case and Cooling forum, there are posts raving about the ATC-200 dated a few months before the first Lian Li thread. My hunch is that Cooler Master’s case debuted in the USA first, while Lian Li was first shipping in Asian markets. The earliest documentation and references I could find for both manufacturers’ consumer aluminum cases are dated sometime in late 1999. But rack frames, rack mount server cases, and rolling server cabinets weren’t on the front page of the Tiger Direct catalog in the Web 1.0 days.

Lian Li had started their aluminum rack mount computer case business back in the eighties.

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Cooler Master claims they made the “first aluminum PC case” with the ATC-200, but corroborating that claim is difficult.

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The aluminum case craze started in the year 2000 with the Cooler Master ATC-200 and Lian-Li’s series of cases. Still, if you want people to know you have a fancy aluminum case, that brushed metal look shouted it from the rooftops. If the retro hi-fi style wasn’t to your taste, Lian Li also offered their cases in a subtle anodized black finish. Brushed aluminum was being used in A/V equipment and appliances for years before PC case makers decided it was cool. Plop a silver Lian Li case next to my grandpa’s Onkyo stereo system from the 1970s and the resemblance is uncanny. But as unique as it was in the computer market, this style isn’t exactly original. A brushed aluminum finish stands out amongst the ranks of mostly beige, white, and sometimes black painted boxes of the early 21st century. Lian Li’s trademark silver fuselage still looks great twenty years later. I wasn’t expecting to spend $30 on a computer case that day, but a deal like that, for a quality PC component like this, doesn't show up very often. Even now, it'd still cost $100 on a used gear site, and that's not counting $50 for shipping. If I’d bought this new in 2003, it would have set me back $180-that’d be $280 today, thanks to our friend inflation. And it was tagged at thirty dollars? That felt awful low. Even the original shipping label was intact. All the accessories were included and it was still wrapped in a protective plastic bag. The box top was already cut open for easy inspection, and the case looked brand new. Lian Li made some of the highest rated cases of the early aughts, so this was a nice find indeed. To my amazement, there in the new arrivals section was a new-in-box Lian Li aluminum PC case. This store is a bust more often than not, but it’s on my drive from Salem to Nashua, so I might as well stop to investigate. I visited the Goodwill in Hudson, New Hampshire one frigid February afternoon expecting to find nothing of importance. Nevertheless, you sometimes find gold among the dross. I might be willing to pay $25 for that SCSI slide scanner… if it wasn’t missing its power supply.

The stuff that's good but not mind-blowing gets placed in glass cases at the front of the store, tagged with, let's say optimistic prices sourced from Buy It Now listings. The truly rare and expensive stuff gets filtered out and shipped to warehouses for listing on online auction sites. As the Onion warned us way back in 1997, people love retro just a little too much, which can make it hard to find bargains. When you're hunting for old junk, it's best to keep your expectations low, so that you can be pleasantly surprised.

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