Yah, getting them apart is not that hard. I got a pair of the external cases from iomega before the Zip was released. I had a notion for a product that they fancied, didn't work out with the external though.
I just wanna look it over from the outside, from every angle, like the engineers did with the clear prototype cases back in the day. The main problems, IIRC, will be fabbing some support points and figuring out what to do with a couple of springs and what not. I'm already removing the momentary switch from the PCB and wiring in another behind the paperclip hole.
I guess it's a question of whether it's uglier to:
replace both of the SMT DB-25 connectors with the 50 pin ribbon cable heading in from the IDE Header/SCSI Controller PCB hack
necking the cable down to a DB-25 IDC Ribbon Cable Connector
or the over the top third option:
make an opposing twin PCB to the convert the standard 50 pin header/connector to a vertical soldertail DB-25M.
HEH!! [}
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p.s. I should post a pic of the first(?) AIO correct, Mac prototype, me likes plexi block constructor set playtime!
I just wanna look it over from the outside, from every angle, like the engineers did with the clear prototype cases back in the day. The main problems, IIRC, will be fabbing some support points and figuring out what to do with a couple of springs and what not. I'm already removing the momentary switch from the PCB and wiring in another behind the paperclip hole.
I guess it's a question of whether it's uglier to:
replace both of the SMT DB-25 connectors with the 50 pin ribbon cable heading in from the IDE Header/SCSI Controller PCB hack
necking the cable down to a DB-25 IDC Ribbon Cable Connector
or the over the top third option:
make an opposing twin PCB to the convert the standard 50 pin header/connector to a vertical soldertail DB-25M.
HEH!! [}
] ]'>p.s. I should post a pic of the first(?) AIO correct, Mac prototype, me likes plexi block constructor set playtime!