I'm having a bit of a trim down of my Amiga stuff, well I'm having a trim down of all my possessions in fact, as I'll be going travelling soon.
What I have been thinking about is selling everything pretty much, but keeping my old A500 for old time's sake and leaving it here in the UK, and have been thinking about putting the A1200 in a sturdy rack mount case. Then I can get the case sent or brought to me when I am living in the Baltics (I'll be ending up settling down to teach in Estonia or Lithuania at the end of Sept after my travels).
So I have been looking on the web at the various rack mount solutions. I know eyetech do an A1200 rack mount case, but I don't really have the money!
I'd like to know if you guys have any thoughts on this. I particularly want to know how easy it would be to fit a zorro/pci board in, as I want to get a decent soundcard eventually. I ask because I just have an A1200 with an 040 accelerator, and having only just got back into the Amiga at the beginning of the year, I'm still trying to catch up with all I've missed in ten years away!
So how are the various zorro/pci solutions in terms of dimensions and orientation? I have seen some 2u rack mounts, that have 1 5.25" exposed bay - perfect for CD-ROM, 1 3.5" exposed bay for the floppy. The A1200 mobo and accelerator should fit nicely, and a friend who works at a factory making bits for cars, planes etc. can cut me a backplate if I give him the dimensions.
But how would I go about squeezing a sound card in there? If the card goes perpendicular to the pci/zorro board, then that ruins that idea.... If the orientation was right, I could use a 1u unit just for the sound card.....
I'm just trying to see if its a feasible idea, any thoughts?
