the tubular lock on the front of the computer

[mh]

my panasonic toughbook CF27 has a dimple lock on the power button

Wow, that's a lapse in system design - that computer clearly needs an Abloy classic!


Also,
hard drive bays (those that could be swapped between computers) (before they invented USB drives) used to have tubular locks, too.

Often a combination of an electric switch that cut the power off when in 'open' psoition and a cam lock that blocked the drive in place in 'closed' position.
If you wanted to swap the drive, you had to use them.

Low security, though.

[JackNco]

its pointless puting a lock on the front when u can get the side off with a screwdriver and just bypass a switch

[VashTSPD]

My friend had a computer that for some reason stopped working. It had an interresting feature, probably the same mh mentioned.

It was a hollow CD-ROM sized bay that you could put a harddrive in and it had a handle on it for easy removal of the HDD. On the front was a tiny tubular lock. When he dismantled the plastic thing, I got the tubular lock.

I was disappointed though, it wasn't a tubular lock at all, it just had a single plate of metal with four pin type bumps on it to make it look like four pins. I just pushed one of them down and the rest sunk too, very easy to pick.