Re: Big Time IIe mod

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

Bill,
  My advice is to use an external Bugg Power Supply and contact it's creator,
Dr. Stephen Buggie.  The Bugg PS will solve several of your design challenges:
A.  Heat build up from PS is eliminated
B.  Steve's PS already can come to operate one, two and even three Apple II
computers of //e or IIGS configurations, so an Apple //e-IBM hybrid seems
doable.  I use one that is in excess of 250 watts.
C.  The removal of the internal PS frees up a lot of space and this can resolve
much of your card problem:
  1.  portions of the left internal rail that support the //e's lid can be
trimmed away and allow four new slot (salvaged from a non-working Apple ][) to
be put in the PS's old area.  Move the motherboard to the right a bit, and you
should be able to make room for five new slots.  These can be connected to
whichever slots you want on the MB by soldering connections on the underside of
the MB, or using bits of cannibalized cards to make short inserts in the
topside of the MB's slots.  Trim the right rail and you can also free up slot 7
easily,
  OR
  2. simply move the MB to the left.  With the PS gone and the lid rails
trimmed, there's room for the memory card and slots 1-4.  Let's see, a 1 meg
memory card, S1=printer card, S2=hard drive, S3=accelerator/Quickie
Scanner/Echo/etc., S4=mouse*.

Either way, your 90-degree angled slot adapters could be angle in opposite
directions to allow two cards to lay flat across the MB:

||||| --,,-- |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
01256   34   7

*  The new PS/2 MouseCard Adapter was just released (I'm demoing it at
KansasFest next week.), so with a radio controlled wireless mouse and two
receivers (one connected the PS/2 MouseCard Adapter and Apple MouseCard, and 
the other connected to the IBM mouse port), you could use a single mouse, like
your single keyboard, to operate both computers--you could leave them both on
the same operational frequency channels so the use of the mouse would be
seamless!
  ][--JaY

BTW, did I miss it, or have you addressed the monitor question?