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- From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: The Amiga 1200 Specs - From CBM
- Message-ID: <69010@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:01:26 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- Commenting on the discussion of tower cases for IBMs and Amigas.....
-
- I looked into the $100 cases available for Intel motherboards and it
- is not a drop-in replacement. Most of the case manufacturers have
- engineered the metal around the Intel motherbaord form-factor which
- means there is usually something in the way when you try to fit the
- larger Amiga motherboard in the case. This is not to say it can't
- be done. Lots of people have done it. I see home-brew tower Amigas
- for sale in the marketplace all the time. But what makes sense for
- a one-off usually does NOT make sense in volume. For fit, finish,
- quality, reliability, economy of scale, stockability, and lots of
- other *ilities, engineering a tower for the Amiga line of machines
- and making them as needed is (my guess here, guys) far and away
- the smart thing to do even if the cost for the bare case is higher.
- Even if the cost for the case, engineering, and assembly is higher.
- Hopefully, this case will be reused in many other products and the
- price difference will come down to the $60-100 of DOS hardware.
-
- That out of the way, the next question is:
- "when will commodore put together a Tower Kit for converting non-
- tower machines to the tower case? It would be a tower case, cables,
- and hardware. Price for case, power supply and hardware should be
- under $200 (actual price not SRP). All I have is an A2000 so I
- dont know if this is even doable. How would you handle lining up
- the tracks that hold card edges? The A2000 is different from the
- A3000 which is different from the A4000, right? Drives up cost.
- Clones have standardized the slot spacing and location.
-
- Dana Bourgeois
- felinegrace@cup.portal.com
-