From: | storm |
Date: | 1 Jun 2001 at 09:34:13 |
Subject: | Re: Homebrew Tower anybody done it?? |
On 31-May-01, Glyn Astill wrote:
> I was just thinking about towering my a1200 myself, I
> have seen a few web pages dedicated to this hack and I
> think its possible. Anybody had any trouble doing
> this?
Yeah. Done both routes... Power Tower here and a pc tower in Australia
recently for my parents-in-law.
Depends how good you are with a hacksaw, tinsnips, pliers and a pot-riveter.
Make sure you get one that's tall enough... bigger than a power tower
(unless you buy the back-plate of the Power-Tower seperately. Tall like an
A4000 tower. And make sure you get the AT power supply if possible, as the
ATX is all but useless imo... way too much hassle. Problem is the AT is
much older, and probably hard to find (at least it was in Oz).
Hacking the back-plate can be done once you've planned it all out, but it's
a major pain-in-the-arse. You have to fiddle around with moving the PSU and
trying to make brackets and crap for the Amiga m/b, as well as having loads
of holes in the wrong places. AArgh.
I sensibly thought of contacting Eytech from Oz and they duly sent me out a
an EZ-Tower back-plate (great service btw). Personally though I wouldn't do
that again as the Eyetech backplate (and probably the tower) makes the
Amiga motherboard be upside down (accelerator expansion facing down, pcmcia
port on the bottom) which wasn't good for the accelerator or the Mediator
that we put in.
To be honest I'd look out for a 2nd hand Power Tower, EZ-Tower or Intrinsic
Tower (Don't get the Micronik one as it's not as well-built as the other 3)
and save yourself alot of hassle and not spend much more than you would
have trying to get a pc tower converted yourself.
> The keyboard seems like the most complicated bit,
> without buying one of those nice neat interfaces.
Just buy the interface and save yourself a few hours of stress and minutes
off your life-span.
Regards
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