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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker case?
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 17:29:16 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
- Message-ID: <4is3lc$1b7@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <4ijv2l$d8l@sundog.tiac.net> <4ik7sg$l94@news.internetmci.com> <4il0f3$qhg@whitney.cs.unc.edu> <13213772@sourcery.han.de> <4ipnjj$1ud@whitney.cs.unc.edu>
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- Carl Mueller (mueller@cs.unc.edu) wrote:
- : "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de> writes:
- : >In Article <4il0f3$qhg@whitney.cs.unc.edu>, Carl Mueller <mueller@cs.unc.edu> wrote:
- : >> [...]
- : >> Still, a stackable design would be nice. At least there's the opportunity
- : >> for a 3rd-party case maker to offer some alternatives.
- : >
- : > Guess what, the Walker board meets the size specs for *standard* PC
- : >cases. Pick the one you like, find a screwdriver and move the thing
- : >over to the new case. It's as simple as that.
-
- : That would be good news, but what about the slice expansion?
-
- Yep, standard keyboard electronics, real io ports, abilty to use 'PC cases'
- -Hmmm does that mean mid tower? What about the vertical expansion boards?-,
- all that would be left is a serial mouse port and the ability to use internal
- modems. Well, that and a slew of third party boards enabling PPC, scsi, and
- PCI svga cards. Going to 1 Meg roms seems silly to me, it would be much
- better to put more on the hard drive.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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