Anyone who has never read Ball Four really ought to do so. For those of you who have, this case is the tractor.
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I bought a pair of USB/FireWire/SATA/AV I/O units for the ubuntuGIMPbox™ and have used half of one of them for that hack so far. I still had the second one and I'd modified black plastic chassis for some reason or other, but I forgot why and I figured I needed one . . .
. . . so it's in here.
I also bought a DVD/RW for that same unfinished hack, but the bezel was black, nothing else was gonna match anyway . . .
. . . so it's in there.
I bought a SunBlade150 off craigslist and it had this kissy-faced doohickey in it. Somebody here explained to me just what it was and was used to do, but it was so utterly useless I've managed to forget everything about it. If I EVER try to get the sucker to work, it ain't gonna be in no Sun Box . . .
. . . so it's in there.
In my trips to pick up various crud for the GIMPer, I ran across a lot of cool stuff. I bought a pair of backplane plates with eSATA, Molex and some other power connector and it looked like the pair of PTOs might be useful. I had one left over . . .
. . . so it's in there.
I spent $50 ea. on a pair of SCSI adapted IDE Zip 250s on eBay and tried one on my Macs, it worked great until I tried to dismount the Zip . . .
. . . so it's in there.
The SCSI Zip250s have conversion PCBs with power/connector adaptation units bolted up to the bottom of the Zip and extending well past the back of the Zip case, making thema bit too deep for a 3.5" bay. So they came in nice 5.25" chassis/bezel adapters. I already had that very cool purple Sonnet Bridge Card with a built in activity LED, but it had no header. So it was backwards and the cables were already hanging out the front of the case. B@$$ackwards like that I could see the activity light . . and that empty Zip bay adapter was sitting right there on the bench . . .
. . . so it's in there.
So after all that, this little side project for the case intended to house the ASUS board that used the two special DIMMs . . . that I par-boiled, is finally starting to come together!
It kinda almost looks like one of my hacks . . . [
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. . . from the front . . .
. . . and the back!
But mostly unfinished, heh!
Now just what shall we do with all that boring beige in between? [}] ]'>
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I bought a pair of USB/FireWire/SATA/AV I/O units for the ubuntuGIMPbox™ and have used half of one of them for that hack so far. I still had the second one and I'd modified black plastic chassis for some reason or other, but I forgot why and I figured I needed one . . .
. . . so it's in here.
I also bought a DVD/RW for that same unfinished hack, but the bezel was black, nothing else was gonna match anyway . . .
. . . so it's in there.
I bought a SunBlade150 off craigslist and it had this kissy-faced doohickey in it. Somebody here explained to me just what it was and was used to do, but it was so utterly useless I've managed to forget everything about it. If I EVER try to get the sucker to work, it ain't gonna be in no Sun Box . . .
. . . so it's in there.
In my trips to pick up various crud for the GIMPer, I ran across a lot of cool stuff. I bought a pair of backplane plates with eSATA, Molex and some other power connector and it looked like the pair of PTOs might be useful. I had one left over . . .
. . . so it's in there.
I spent $50 ea. on a pair of SCSI adapted IDE Zip 250s on eBay and tried one on my Macs, it worked great until I tried to dismount the Zip . . .
. . . so it's in there.
The SCSI Zip250s have conversion PCBs with power/connector adaptation units bolted up to the bottom of the Zip and extending well past the back of the Zip case, making thema bit too deep for a 3.5" bay. So they came in nice 5.25" chassis/bezel adapters. I already had that very cool purple Sonnet Bridge Card with a built in activity LED, but it had no header. So it was backwards and the cables were already hanging out the front of the case. B@$$ackwards like that I could see the activity light . . and that empty Zip bay adapter was sitting right there on the bench . . .
. . . so it's in there.
So after all that, this little side project for the case intended to house the ASUS board that used the two special DIMMs . . . that I par-boiled, is finally starting to come together!
It kinda almost looks like one of my hacks . . . [
] ]'>. . . from the front . . .
. . . and the back!
But mostly unfinished, heh!
Now just what shall we do with all that boring beige in between? [}
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