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From: ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A Tower For The 500?
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Date: 17 Feb 91 00:05:38 GMT
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   The Bodega Bay is surely a nice system, but I've got my heart set on some
type of tower to place my 500 in. It would consist of:
 
o Very cool looking tower type case, but not too tall.
o Detached keyboard.
o 3 or more 2000 series card slots.
o A 2000 series video slot.
o A 2000 series CPU slot, or at least compatibility with Amiga 500 CPU cards
  that went inside the Amiga 500's old case.
o Compatibility with the A501-type RAM cards and such that went inside the
  A500's old case.
o 2 5 1/4" Drive Bays - Easily uses 3.5" drives, too.
o An Internal Hard Drive Mounting Spot (besides the drive bays), or the room
  for hard drives to go on hard cards.
o Good quality power supply and fan.
o Price tag of around $300.
 
 Considering that the Bodega Bay is selling for about that price, and taking
into account that this thing needs really nothing more than the Bodega Bay
had (except for the detached keyboard), I think they could sell it for almost
what Bodega Bay goes for. The 500's motherboard would be mounted standing on
end, because of the tower's dimensions. IE:
 
  _______
 I       I
 I       I
 I   ___ I
 I   ___ I  <----Two drive bays.
 I_______I
       (____
            )
    -------------
    I Keyboard  I
    I___________I 
 
 Hey, I'm no artist. Anyway, anybody else out there want one of these?
 
   Tom

--
       Why purchase a MAC when an Amiga with the same CPU will run 99% of all
    __ MAC software..and FASTER at that?! The same can be said of the IBM and
 __/// Atari computers, and I can run those in a window. IBM's greatest sales 
 \XX/  tool is ignorance on the consumer's part. Only the Amiga! DEVO Anyone?