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From: greg@cti1.UUCP (Greg Fabian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 1/3 or 1/2 height drives for IIsi
Message-ID: <329@cti1.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 90 19:12:43 GMT
References: <9847@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <109561@convex.convex.com> <1990Nov30.210449.3362@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <131323@tiger.oxy.edu> <1990Dec4.214244.6810@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <131323@tiger.oxy.edu>, schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch) writes:
>|> gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) states:
>|> >	 The point to all this is - has anyone considered the
>|> >possibility of beefing up the IIsi's power supply?  Can any hardware
>|> 
>|> I don't know about this, but external drives use their own power supply and
>|> I believe there are external nubus chassis available with 4 & 8 slots which
>|> supply their own power supply...

It would be economically unfeasible to buy a NuBus expansion chassis in order
to expand an Mac II SI.  Expansion chassis are EXPENSIVE, and it would make
more sense for you to buy a Mac II CI with all the NuBus slots you will 
probably need.  It would be cheaper to get the external unit for the SI with
it's own external power supply than to go the NuBus route.  Apple designed
the II SI for those folks who don't need the NuBus expansion (although you
have the option of installing a NuBus Adapter if you need one).

As for cracking open a Mac SE, it's no great problem.  There are four screws
holding it together and the case snaps apart.  Although room in kinda tight,
it doesn't take much effort to install/replace disk drives.  You have to
give Apple credit for the way the machine is put together (non-ergonomically
speaking).
-- 
Greg Fabian

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