Got talking with a coworker about old computers and I brought up that I had a large Everex Desktop computer that had a YELLOW matrix display by the Power and HDD LED on an Everex Desktop computer with a 80386 DX 25Mhz CPU. Told my coworker friend about upgrading from Windows 3.11 to 95 and running Windows 95 on it with 8MB RAM and the large hard drive inside was making all sorts of NOISES as if it was struggling to keep up seeking data and the matrix display on the front of it was showing C:> and what looked like all the sectors or tracks it was reading from.

When formatting a FLOPPY disk I remember seeing displayed ( A:> x ) where x = 1 thru 80 for the tracks as it was formatting.

Does anyone know what the purpose of this matrix display was for? Did it really matter to see what drive and track was being accessed etc or was it just a marketing feature to display how much more superior this computer was over the competition in which both computers were the same speed, but this one must be better because it shows drive activity on an alpha matrix vfd?

While it looked cool from a bling factor, I just never saw the point in its purpose to have been designed into the computer.