Rack mount (was: The "FIRST PC" and personal timelines

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Apr 22 20:07:14 1999

  A friend of mine just got a BUNCH of them. What are they worth? Some of
the cases are empty except for the power supply and others have systems in
them. Some of them even have two systems in them. The ones with systems
have a "mother-board" that really just a back plane, there are no
components on it other than sockets and connectors. The CPU and memory are
all on a plug-in cards similar to how some of the old Zenith computers were
built. The card slots are all standard 16 bit slots and they use regular
cards. Right now most of them have TWO CPU cards, TWO floppy drives, TWO
hard drives, TWO video cards, TWO HP-IB cards and four other data acquision
cards and there's still slots left over. I haven't looked close at the back
plane so I don't know how the two system signals are kept separated. It
looks like regular PC mother boards will fit in these cases too. These are
*NICE* cases with a locking door on the front that covers the floppy
drives, power switch, reset switch, keyboard disable, etc.

  Before anyone asks, he probably will be parting these out for the fancy
cards so there may be some cases left over. I'm sure he'll sell the
complete units including the fancy cards but they won't be cheap. (Have you
ever priced a National Instruments GPIO card?)

  If anyone is SERIOUSLY interested contact me privately and I'll put you
in touch with him. WARNING: this guy is one of those "professional" surplus
dealers that would rather trash the stuff than sell it too cheap (in his
opinion) so no tire kickers please.

  Joe


At 04:16 PM 4/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>> Rack mounted Apple ][! Now that would have been cool! Would
>>> have liked that. ;-)
>>
>>OT: does anyone have a source for some CHEAP rack mount cases for PCs?
>
>Where do we all get in line?
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>
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Received on Thu Apr 22 1999 - 20:07:14 BST

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