Hiya Guys
We used to shoehorn into that 1U 19inch rack mount the standard A1200 motherboard, 8meg ram expansion, 2.5 to 3.5 IDE interface along with an 100meg internal Iomega ZIP drive replacing the floppy and a standard 3.5inch hard drive of around 150meg capacity.
Oh we also had a reset switch mounted into the front face, this was a simple push button wired to an upside down socket press fit over the keyboard interface.
So it was quite crowded inside!! What I used to do was place heavy duty fiber tape along the bottom on the inside as an electrical separation barrier from the metal 1U.
The standard 3.5inch IDE hard drive was mounted by drilling the required holes into the bottom of the rack and then tape over the area the drive would be sitting on! Screw from underneath and all could be transported without incident to remote locations all around Australia.
These machines would run SCALA presentations off the hard drive 24/7 and if any updates were needed, insert the 100meg Iomega ZIP disk, reset the machine and a custom startup script I wrote would find that a ZIP was present, copy all the contents of the Iomega into the SCALA directory on the harddrive, eject the Iomega ZIP disk and reboot the A1200... which would then start the SCALA multimedia presentation as normal off the hard drive.
Because some of the multimedia presentations would eventually have memory fragmentation... I had wrote a small machine code interrupt handler that would run behind SCALA and reboot the A1200 every 24 hours. This stopped all customer complaints of dropped pages or missing sounds.
So you CAN get a lot of Amiga stuff installed into the U1 rack case... if you use tape where the memory expansion sits!!
Hope that helps
Az
Fascinating stuff.
Did you also create the Scala presentations for the clients as well?
Who or what type of businesses used theses A1200 Scala set ups.
I remember going into an aged-care facility for work and saw what was an A500 inside a metal box used to run the entire in-house display system to announce all sorts of things-dinner times, menus, tv and cinema sccreenings, in-house professional services, and this would go to all of the tv in the centre.
