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From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: SCSI cards
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Date: 24 Oct 90 19:22:52 GMT
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In article <2164@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> alfter@uns-helios.uucp (SCOTT ALFTER) writes:
>In article <29379@nuchat.UUCP> jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon) writes:
>>A ROM 1 board is around $380 I believe.  I don't have the price of the ROM
>
>Hmm...for that price, you have to wonder if it would be economically feasible
>to build your own IIGS, in much the same way as the MeSsy-DOS folks can get
>a motherboard, case, power supply, etc.  It might even be possible to stick a
>GS motherboard in an IBM-type case--you'd even get a bigger power supply 
>(XT-class supplies are rated for 150 watts, I think, while Apple II supplies
>are only good up to 60-80 watts) and you could mount disk drives internally.

	I've tried this.  I have a slim line xt case, pretty nice, not
as big as the other IBM cases, and a 200 watt power supply.  I took a
piece of sheet metal, and cut holes for the serial ports, ADB bus, and
the rest of the stuff on the back of the gs, and riveted it to the
back of my case.  That part worked fine, but the power supply didn't.
I measured the voltage of the stock gs, and matched up wires from the
other power supply, but when I connected it, there wasn't enough
power.  I'm guesing it didn't work because of a lack of current...
Does anyone know how much currrent it takes to power a gs motherboard?
I thought the idea of putting everything in one box, except the
monitor, would be cool, much more portable than the stock gs.  Of
course, we'd lose the cool styling of the gs...


Steve Chiang



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