Silent Paws

[starbird80]

It's HUGE! :-D

Think that's big?  They planned another model to hold the A4000 desktop motherboard, and allow space for Zorro cards.

I wanted one for my Toaster/Flyer, and talked to one of the Silent Paws guys about it at Amiga St. Louis in '97.  He seemed pretty gung ho, as some company had expressed interest in a batch, so I could have got mine added to the production run.  Unfortunately a few days later I got a message that this company had backed out of the deal, and Silent Paws would need to have an order for a batch of at least ten before they'd do any.  (No, I don't know who they were.)

[starbird80]

@carls (and apologies for going even further offtopic)

There was some other company making "luggable" A4000 machines.

Hmm, never saw such a thing at the time.  After the SP thing fell through I was looking into using shock-mounted racks (like some musicians use for their rack-mount effects and such).  Couldn't find a rack-mount case for the A4000, though there was one produced for the A2000.  Considered moving the Toaster/Flyer to my A2000, but would have needed an accellerator, which I'd just bought for the A4000...

Then the flood of '97 came to Grand Forks, ND, and I ended up relocating to Fargo/Moorhead, and my Toaster/Flyer is still a desktop thing.