A2000 or A4000 tower hacking??

[JimS]

Back in the "old days" there was a tower case conversion for the 2000 called the Bomac tower. It was built like a tank, and weighed like one... You took the cover and the drive bracket off the 2000 and mounted the rest in the case. There was a big cutout in the back of the case for the 2000's back panel. It gave you 5 or 6 drive bays, plus the ability to use a stock pc power supply for the extra drives. And it had the cable & LED extensions..
I sometimes think of converting one of those old 486 server towers that show up in the scrab bin or the goodwill.

[JimS]

drwho wrote:
Oh yeah, I remember the Bomac. I didn't oen one myself, but I bought some hardware from a kid who had towered his A2000 in one of those.

At the time, I was working at an Amiga dealer as the service department. :-) I got the job of doing the Bomac installation for one of our customers... Then when he sold the Amiga, I got the job of un-doing it.

Seems to me, the reason for towering is to get more drive bays.. so it makes more sense to just use an external drive box.

[JimS]

jjans wrote:
I agree with the external box idea as I did this with my A500. I ripped the guts out of an old 486 desktop, kept the power supply, and installed SCSI hardrives, CDROM, and a CD Burner, and connected via SCSI cable through an A530.

I built a few of these for customers... The only problem I had was that some power supplies did not work with just the load of a couple drives. I had to put a resistor on there to stabilize them.