Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
In an alternate history, Sun bought Apple, continuing development of the iMac and Beige G3, all well underway before the second coming. The PowerExpress/9700 project was continued and further developed by Sun as the first RackMac, specifically targeted at the die hard content producing creative types who'd kept the dream alive in the mid-90s.
Be that silliness as it may, I've had a Sun 25th Anniversary Compact Mac in the concept stage for the longest time. Since I've been repopulating the main living area of my apartment. Flood damaged carpet has been replaced in the main living area. The PEx ROM test peripherals setup on top of the Netra in the collection rack was just cleared away to move the Rack and storage Boxen back from my bedroom onto the new carpet from whence they came. All of a sudden the notion hit and had just to be done. So I've begun converting the long somnolent Netra t 1125 4U monster into a bulletproof, industrial duty case for my bare PEx mobo.
The ridiculous OEM, PSU had to go, it looks to have intelligent control over a sixteen signal line connection with the logic board? Its output lines are really heavy gauge on a pair of much oversized Molex connectors, no chance there, nor need for that much power.
The 9600 PSU from the many years old PEx-in-a-Drawer setup would fit behind the air intake fan in the front if I built a custom frame for its boards, but that's just not practical. So I'm at an ATX conversion installation within the confines of top sheet metal of the OEM supply and quite a bit of available cubic below it. That's my worst, but not really all that high a hurdle.
This is the first hurdle, but not so really bad at all. Need to do an EPS file to hand off to one of my customers at work. He finally got a water-jet setup for his custom gasket fab. There will be a goodly section of this very heavy steel backplane plate washed away and a pair of missing of slot openings behind that sticker cut out to open the case to the PEx full card complement. At that point I can begin fitting this sacrificial 9500 logic board in place.
I haven't had to drill out this many pop-rivets in a very long time, what a beast!
Be that silliness as it may, I've had a Sun 25th Anniversary Compact Mac in the concept stage for the longest time. Since I've been repopulating the main living area of my apartment. Flood damaged carpet has been replaced in the main living area. The PEx ROM test peripherals setup on top of the Netra in the collection rack was just cleared away to move the Rack and storage Boxen back from my bedroom onto the new carpet from whence they came. All of a sudden the notion hit and had just to be done. So I've begun converting the long somnolent Netra t 1125 4U monster into a bulletproof, industrial duty case for my bare PEx mobo.
The ridiculous OEM, PSU had to go, it looks to have intelligent control over a sixteen signal line connection with the logic board? Its output lines are really heavy gauge on a pair of much oversized Molex connectors, no chance there, nor need for that much power.
The 9600 PSU from the many years old PEx-in-a-Drawer setup would fit behind the air intake fan in the front if I built a custom frame for its boards, but that's just not practical. So I'm at an ATX conversion installation within the confines of top sheet metal of the OEM supply and quite a bit of available cubic below it. That's my worst, but not really all that high a hurdle.
This is the first hurdle, but not so really bad at all. Need to do an EPS file to hand off to one of my customers at work. He finally got a water-jet setup for his custom gasket fab. There will be a goodly section of this very heavy steel backplane plate washed away and a pair of missing of slot openings behind that sticker cut out to open the case to the PEx full card complement. At that point I can begin fitting this sacrificial 9500 logic board in place.
I haven't had to drill out this many pop-rivets in a very long time, what a beast!
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