Trash80toHP_Mini
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Dang! Next set of pics will have the NIC installed, wish I had a SCSI2SD. :-/
Ahhh! T-Slots I know, but for shop equipment jig placement on drill presses and mills and for various things like table saw crosscut gauges. Do they have actual small T-Nuts for the application or do they just use garden variety hex-nuts?The technique with the captured nuts is called T-slots, and it's pretty common for laser-cut enclosures. I've never done it before, so I'm interested to see how well it works in practice.
Hmm yeah, with another shelf on the opposite side of the case? I think I see what you mean.As a second model in your lineup (if the market demands) it looks as though you could also easily flip the PSU onto its back, and locate it above the VRAM... then fatten up the height, reduce the width, and finally flip the whole box on its side for nice little tower ... It would be a neat little micro Q700 type of thing.
The thickest part of my SCSI2SD v3.0 is where the 50-pin SCSI cable plugs in. I measured it 18mm including the solder bumps on the opposite side of the PCB. I'm not sure if versions 5.0 or 6.0 are thicker.How thick is that SCSI2SD assembly? We're quite a pair, you without a NIC, me without the SCSI2SD and trying to bodge different versions of this together anyway!
Definitely neat. That's one of the form factors I've been looking at for the 630/6400 version, but I'm waiting for Floofies to get everything on the MicroATX PSU front nailed down and documented before jumping in . . . maybe.It would be a neat little micro Q700 type of thing.
Thanks! [] ]'> It should look good, it's cut from your plans! [] ]'> I did have a little trouble getting the PSU into battery, but it got there. Shouldn't be a problem putting the acrylic version together, my corrugated is a bit thick by comparison and it was all hot glued together before the installation. Your case will be flexible until you slip that end cap on.Nice! Your cardboard version looks good. I hope the acrylic model works as well, once I get the parts cut.
Interesting notion. Thoughts of a dedicated Q630/40 Patriot Command Arcade MiniTower have been haunting me. Used to play that every Wednesday Family Game Night on the Q630.You all got me grinding gears now thinking about this Sawtooth G4 logic board I have.
But they only say it in the context of overclocking. At stock speeds, they obviously ran okay in confined spaces with little to no airflow.Heat was always a problem throughout the 68040's life. While it delivered over four times the per-clock performance of the 68020 and 68030, the chip's complexity and power requirements came from a large die and large caches. This affected the scaling of the processor and it was never able to run with a clock rate exceeding 40 MHz. A 50 MHz variant was planned, but canceled. Overclocking enthusiasts reported success reaching 50 MHz using a 100 MHz oscillator instead of an 80 MHz part and the then novel technique of adding oversized heat sinks with fans.