I need disk drive standoffs and ribbon cables !

[JimS]

I have to agree. I don't see any point in putting Amigas in elementary schools. The time has past...
There's only  one reason that might make sense here.  The Amiga's OS is less complex the windoze...  A younger kid might benefit from messing around with the Amiga, rather than jumping right into the byzantine world of Windows.  ... Still, I would have loved to have one when I was in school... but a TTY with an acoustic modem was state-of-the-art then.  :-D

[JimS]

DonnyEMU wrote:
Apple thought the Amiga was such a threat to that market the brought out the Apple ][gs.. Anyone remember that product??

Yeah, I used to run an Atari group meeting in the Flint schools. They replaced the Atari 400/800 machines with AppleIIGS machines about the time they came out.  Much later I was at an auction and those same GS machines were going for about 8 bucks.  I bought an apple ][ that someone stacked with a VGA monitor for 3 buxks, and sold the ][ for 2 the next day.

[JimS]

Those standoffs are a standard part. They should be available at radio shack or such places.  As for the cables.. I thought you could use a peecee floppy cable, but it looks like more leads are twisted in the pc cable.  Still, it should be an easy task to buy some bulk cable and IDC connectors.  If you use care, you can crimp those on with a vise instead of the special tool they wan't to sell you. I've done it with scsi cables.