Computer chassis construction

Computer apparatus comprising:

• a metal chassis having contiguous, perpendicular first and second walls with inner sides, said second wall having a cutout area formed therein;
• a unitary plastic I/O output bracket member removably and complementarily received in said cutout area, said output bracket member having a plurality of I/O connection openings formed therein;
• and
• a printed circuit board carried by said chassis, said printed circuit board having I/O connector devices operatively mounted thereon, all of the I/O connector devices on said printed circuit board having portions thereof complementarily received in said I/O connection openings.

A method of constructing first and second differently configured computer structures, said method comprising the steps of:

• forming essentially identical first and second metal chassis each having contiguous, perpendicular first and second walls,
• said first and second metal chassis having essentially identical cutout areas formed in said second walls thereof;
• providing first and second printed circuit boards having mounted thereon differently configured series of I/O connector devices;
• providing first and second unitary I/O output bracket members each being configured to be operatively received in and cover either of said chassis wall cutout areas,
• said first I/O output bracket member having formed therein a series of I/O connection openings configured complementarily receive portions of said I/O connector devices on said first printed circuit board,
• said second I/O output bracket member having formed therein a series of I/O connection openings configured to complementarily receive portions of said I/O connector devices on said second printed circuit board;
• securing said first printed circuit board to either of said first and second metal chassis;
• securing said second printed circuit board to the other of said first and second metal chassis;
• operatively placing said first I/O output bracket member in the cutout area of the chassis to which said first printed circuit board is secured;
• complementarily positioning portions of the I/O connector devices of said first printed circuit board in said I/O connection openings of said first I/O output bracket member;
• operatively placing said second I/O output bracket member in the cutout area of the chassis to which said second printed circuit:
• board is secured;
• and
• complementarily positioning portions of the I/O connector devices of said second printed circuit board in said I/O connection openings of said second I/O output bracket member.