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Re: Tiny little ATX supply.

PZ wrote:

> James Littlejohn had something similar that he demoed at Kfest this
> year.  It was a board with a 2.5"x2.5" footprint that took a 12v DC
> input off of a Wallwart and converted it to +12, -12, +5 and -5 volts
> in the GS.  It created a cavernous amount of space inside the
> machine.  It created enough room that someone could be able to
> internally mount both a 3.5" floppy and a half height CD rom drive
> inside the case if one desired.  The WallWart was quite small in size
> as well.  The GS draws far less power than a modern PC notebook does
> these days.

So he was using something like a Mini-ITX supply? They sound similar,
although I've never checked if the Mini-ITX supplies have -5v.

Tristan.
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