cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav]) (11/27/88)
In article <494@midgard.UUCP>, caa@midgard.UUCP (Charles A Anderson) writes: > I a totaly unrelated topic, has any one thought of putting a 3b1/7300 in a > different case? I've never opened mine up so I have no idea what the > configuration looks like inside. I would think that this would let one easily > add another hard drive (if John tells us how) inside the case with a beefed > up power supply. The biggest problem would seem to be the monitor since it is > built into the case......Just a thought.. A couple of people have talked about it around here. The monitor problem acutally is no problem at all. You can simply unscrew it from the base and sit it on top of something else (like the monitor pedistool from the 6300 plus which will connect right to the base) - of course, you'll need a longer video cable, but that's not that difficult. The UNIXPC is a single board design with a daughter section for the addon boards. This should be able to fit into any case, and fits nicely into vme cases. On the other hand, the designers went through a lot of trouble to get it to fit into that small case and have all that great steel sheilding, so mabee you want to keep the old case and just modify it. If you want the thing more compact, the obvious thing is to get rid of the triangualar part, since it will be nice and slim and able to sit on its side. It's the things in this section which keep you from having easy access to the mother board anyway. Once the monitor is taken care of, the only things in the triangular part of the case are the disk drives and power supply. The disks can be easily placed into an external unit, but the power supply is an other matter, though I suppose that Radio Shack sells several enclosure models just the right size for it. Now that everything is out of the triangular part, just cut it right off with a saw, glue in another piece of plastic, and put in a cutout for a fan. -- Christopher J. Calabrese AT&T Bell Laboratories att!ulysses!cjc cjc@ulysses.att.com