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Re:Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video] by asveikau on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:41PM (#19865175)
> a slide out cup holder.

By this I am going to assume you mean the cd-rom drive. (And thanks to the 1990s for the computer joke of that decade.)

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Re:Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video] by brians on Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:29AM (#19865644)
Probably not. https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/is-this-the-best-com...
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Re:Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video] by jacobush on Thursday May 09, 2019 @04:29AM (#19866391)
A SAAB cup holder would have been cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ULaCgLp6A

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Re:Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video] by ryanmcbride on Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:26PM (#19870217)
Nah I meant a literal holder made specifically for cups, with no disc reading abilities, a lot like the one posted in this comment thread
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Re:Why did old PCs have key locks? (2017) [video] by asveikau on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:57PM (#19874095)
I know. I was joking. And I heard this joke too many times ~20 years ago. So I was being corny.
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