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Offline SACC-guy

Re: Who's getting the Tabor?
« on: February 17, 2017, 12:00:13 AM »
How about this one... from Trevor's blog

Go daddy - X500 plus style

"You may recall that Loriano 'The Daddy' Pagni ran a Kickstarter campaign to create the X500 Plus, a special computer-in-a-keyboard case design inspired by the Amiga 500.

X500 Plus

I supported the campaign and had my X500 Plus case sent to Amigakit where it has remained for the best part of a year while I decided what to do with it. When I was in England attending the LAG 10th anniversary show, I made side trip to Amigakit's offices in Cardiff and while there I decided to unpack my X500 Plus case which was still sealed in the original shipping box. I managed to persuade Christopher Follett, AmigaKit's technician, to test a Tabor motherboard with the X500 Plus case.

To be honest it did not take much persuasion and in a very short time Christopher had installed the motherboard and had Tabor booting to to the early startup screen. I was impressed by the quality of the X500 Plus keyboard which had a very Amiga-like feel. The case also included a flexible PCIe cable which allowed the RadeonHD graphics card to be installed horizontally. The case is designed for a Pico PSU and as we did not have one we powered the Tabor with a tradition desktop PSU.

Tabor System Info Screen

The X500 Plus is also overloaded with case fans which I don't think will be needed for the Tabor board but better safe than sorry I suppose.

So was it a success? Are the Tabor motherboard and the X500 Plus a good match? Most decidedly yes and I can't wait to get AmigaOS 4.1 running on my AmigaOne A1222/Tabor system. :-)"
 

Offline SACC-guy

Re: Who's getting the Tabor?
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2017, 12:03:58 AM »
I missed out on the SAM series , so I got one!
 

Offline SACC-guy

Re: Who's getting the Tabor?
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2017, 09:25:15 PM »
The machine is the motherboard.

In for a dime...in for a dollar! (: