Amiga 1200 in rack has arrived

[johnklos]

I never knew the Lisa chip got so hot. I suppose the air in that cabinet doesn't circulate because the power supply is external, right? My rackmount A1200 has  a fan in the front directed towards the Blizzard 1260 and one in the power supply in the back, so air moves at least a little.

I thought about trying to find a 1U case into which I could put my A1200 motherboard back in the day - heck, it'd have been a lot easier since I wouldn't have had to replicate the ports - but since it was to make the A1200 colocatable, a PCMCIA ethernet card was necessary. Perhaps you could find a way to redirect the PCMCIA 180 degrees or something like that. It's a nice setup.

[johnklos]

Hmm the drive is a teac one, I'm sure there are mods online for it though for the disk change, not that it will matter once the compact flash card arrives.
 
Still waiting to hear back about an Amiga 1230 accelerator card ideally after a 50mhz one with at least 16 to 128mb ram.

Back in the day, I used to use a common PC floppy drive, too. I wired the reset button of the case I was using to simulate a diskchange. Since I never used floppies all that often, it worked perfectly for me, and the nice thing is that if the drive ever dies, you can get another brand new from Newegg for $8 (or cheaper from lots of other places).

[johnklos]

I also have an A1200 mounted in a rack, and I'm about to redo it using some nice shallow (25cm) racks from supermicro that have all ioport on the front. I'm using two pcmcia angle adapters to have the PCMCIA ethernet card inside the case, ideally I would want to replace that with one cable based, bendable adapter, but I suspect I have to build that myself.

kolla: You and I have to talk. First, it's nice to know that there's lots of love out there for rackmount A1200s... For a long time, I thought I was the only one. Nice job!

Second, I'm a NetBSD geek, but I'm in the process of trying to help m68k/Debian get updated so that there can possibly be a Debian/squeeze release soon. Perhaps some of the work in Gentoo can help get Debian up to speed...

[johnklos]

A few more bits and pieces to arrive and my 1U rack Amiga will be complete :-)

How about this bit?

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=564