I've always thought that the proper place for ports on a _desk-top_ system
is on the side: easy to get to the ports and you don't have the cable
connectors sticking out the back, where they add to the depth, which can be
a problem on a narrow countertop. When I built my first IBM-PC clone (in a
nice cherry-stained wooden case), I turned the motherboard 90 degrees CW so
the ports were on the right. I also made brackets from cookie-sheet aluminum
to mount the disk drives and power supply over the (now) front of the
motherboard, resulting in a nice, shallow case.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:foo_at_siconic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:45 AM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Computers with ports coming out the front?
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> On a machine that doesn't sustain much floppy activity,
> (or uses external drives), if you face the disk drives towards the back,
> then the ports on your PC are out front where God intended.
Indeed, a friend of mine who owns a business that makes rackmount systems
made a special model for a customer where they pretty much did this. They
put the mounting flange on the back of the box, making it the front, and
added cut-outs for the disk drives.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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