Back in the day I had my A1000 in a 386 IBM tower case turned on it's side in desktop format. I had so many external cases for hard drives, CD-ROM, hard drive controller, second power supply, etc. it just got to be too cumbersome. Once it was all in one case, I no longer had trouble with connections coming apart between peripherals and the motherboard, Rejuvenator, Derringer, fllickerfixer, etc. Year ago there was an article about Frankenthousand in Bitplane magazine.