BTS: LPX teardown fail
Added 2025-07-07 01:37:05 +0000 UTCI'm working on a script right now about a weird intermediate PC form factor standard called "LPX" that arose at roughly the same time as "baby AT" but was totally unknown at the time, due to being an OEM-only standard with no formal spec. I needed to do an experiment before I could finish the script, decided to record it so I wouldn't have to do it again for the video - then the experiment failed, so it'll never end up in the final video! But you might enjoy watching this anyway, idk.
It was also just an experiment to figure out what I can do in my new home office space; learned some things about how I need to light it and calibrate my cameras and whatnot. Good times.
If anyone has any solid info on this LPX thing (not unsourced assertions from 2000s-era PC reference books, i have plenty of those, I'm looking for actual, contemporary citations) I would appreciate it!
(BTS is Behind The Scenes. not the kpop group)
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Thank you for sharing the experiment. A failed hypothesis is still a tested one, and a value to observe. Someone may have already pointed this out, but Dell were famous for being slightly out of alignment with other vendor trends. They wanted people to come to them. They weren't as bad as Sony about it. They just wanted more orders in the Dell shipping center than AST or any other rival.
Dante Blando
2025-07-10 22:36:22 +0000 UTCDell had proprietary drive rails for decades. People hated that. The only reason Dell survived was their huge educational/business deals where people could afford to standardize on that shit. When that stopped being a thing and margins got thinner, they finally went to standard rails, but it took them an ice age.
Crash Cash
2025-07-10 14:09:29 +0000 UTC
