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- From: jamesch@popd.ix.netcom.com (ChrisC)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: C64 in a PC tower case?
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 14:01:43 GMT
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- I've never put a C64 into a tower, but have been toying with the idea of
- putting a c128 in one. Here are some ideas that come to mind.
-
- In article <1996Mar13.153627.20139@guvax>, toppam@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
- wrote:
- >Howdy!
- >
- > I've seen posts here before from folks who've put C64's in PC
- >tower cases. I got the instructions for hooking up a PC keyboard to a
- >C64 from an earlier post, but I'd like to find out how others have put
- >the C64 in the PC case. Specifically:
- >
- > 1. How did you provide access to the C64's ports? Is it possible
- >to run ribbon cables from the board so that things like cartridges can
- >be plugged in from accesible areas (I was thinking that a custom
- >built cartridge port in the front of a tower case might be nifty,
- >depending on whether it's actually feasible - I'm an amateur at these
- >things).
-
- You would run ribbon cables from the motherboard to the back, probably to the
- slots usually used by the expansion boards in an IBM. I guess it would be
- possible to use one of the 3 1/2" bays as a location for the expansion port so
- as to make plugging in carts easier, or you could get one of those 3 in one
- extenders, route 2 to the back for your REU/swiftlink and 1 to the front for
- carts.
-
- >
- > 2. Do you have disk drives installed inside the case?
- >Obviously a 1541 is too damn big, but I think my Excelerator Plus drive
- >would fit in a 5 1/4 bay. I've never seen CMD's hard drives - could
- >they be put in a tower case?
- >
-
- Ideally you would want to use a 1571. It's 1541 compatible, but it would fit
- nicely into the 5 1/4" bay. CMD hard drives are just SCSI drives. There are
- usually places in a case for a hard drive (probably just below the 3 1/2" bay)
-
- > 3. How do you provide power? A big tower case could contain
- >all the power supplies; could you then just plug them into an internal
- >power strip, that you turn on from the switch at the front of the
- >tower case?
- >
- That's a toughy. Ideally, you would want one supply controlling everything.
- The only supplies I know of with that much power are IBM supplies, but they
- don't contain the 9 volt AC that the C64 requires.
-
- > If you have answers to these questions and other relevant
- >issues, please post 'em!
- >
- >Thanks!
- >
- > Mr. Wrong says to join the Mars Colony rebellion, contact:
- > ============ toppam@guvax.georgetown.edu
- > FREE MARS!
- > ============ "the sands will run red with Earther blood"
- >
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