Cheers Buzz, you're absolutely right.
Well I've taken a bit of a beating on here, for some reason
I'm amazed that those people who consider my A1200 to be a work of gross iconoclasm fail to recognise the obvious fact that any self-respecting Amiga user OBVIOUSLY has a legion of alternative, unblemished machines from which to choose. 'Unblemished' is a bit of a joke, actually, considering the propensity of CBM plastics to turn piss-coloured in just a couple of years' exposure to British tuppaware sunlight... So I use multiple Amigas, productively, every day: some are 'decorated', most are not
Anyway:
So, as you can clearly see from the images on my site, the peculiar and rather ungraceful cooling apparatus was constructed so that my 060/PPC could get the cooling it needed despite the A1200 having first one, then two hard drives inside. Raising the case with the large rubber feet gave a lot of airflow underneath, allowing the 060/50mhz to breathe. Actually, I really wish the 603e+ had the option of disabling the PPC... That's why, eventually, I part-traded the 603e+ for a straight 060. So drawing up air specifically through that fan on the top makes for an extremely cool machine that I can run all night, or for an entire live gig, without any worries. Better safe than sorry, yeah?
Oh, but I
am sorry about the Atari
(That 520STe went an even nastier colour than any of my Amigas - how 'bout that?)
EDIT: Sorry, this might all make a bit more sense with the full picture gallery;)
http://syphus.untergrund.net/a1200/
