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From: mike@abekrd.UUCP (Mike Quinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Any hardware hacks anyone ?
Keywords: hardware hacks?
Message-ID: <1425@abekrd.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 90 10:42:30 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Abekas Video Systems Ltd, Reading, England
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I have been following the discussions on comp.sys.amiga (just out of interest)
and they're talking about doubling the processor clock speed. Now I know
about hacks to upgrade the memory (done that); add my own second internal
drive (done that); make the display bigger (thinking about it :-))...

Has anybody done any interesting (and fairly simple) hardware projects to
boost this wonderful machine in other ways? Can _we_ double the ST clock to
16 Mhz ? How about a homebrew remote keyboard ? Or details on putting all
these disks & ST motherboard in a small(ish) PC type box ?

Come on guys, lets make this machine _work_! Either E-mail me or post details
to comp.sys.atari.st.tech. I'll summarize any mail there too.

	Mike.

PS. The second drive mod involved replacing the internal drive with two thin
    3.5" drives, a new ribbon cable, adding one wire to the motherboard and
    a little bit of sawing on the chassis (Not recommended if your machine is
    still under warranty :-)).