I've always though that cables are a complete pain in the ass, and
everything should be on a 10 terabit hyper encrypted range-as-needed
wireless network. Mice, keyboards, monitor, printers, disk drives,
floppies, paper tape punch/readers, and POWER. And if the power can't be
wireless, at least 1 megawatt nuclear batteries in a 'D' cell form factor
that will last 1000 years.
Cables SUCK.
--John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Feldman, Robert
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 09:50
> To: 'cctalk_at_classiccmp.org'
> Subject: RE: Computers with ports coming out the front?
>
>
> 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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