Well my original idea was to have just a new PC inside an Apple IIe case,
but then I thought that it would certainly be cool to have dual... I never
thought about the IIc motherboard, I will look into that. I was trying to
figure out if there was a smaller variant (the thought also crossed my mind
to see how hard it would be to mod a Mac LC Apple IIe PDS card). It may well
turn out that the dual computer idea will not work, if so then I will scrap
the IIe part and just use the new PC with an emulator.
I looked into the mini-itx epia boards, but decided that I wanted a little
more oomph, plus I already have a lot of Athlon compatible stuff (heatsinks,
memory, and probably a 1800+ CPU if I decide to upgrade my main computer
soon), plus the Nforce 2 platform provides fairly powerful graphics, sound,
and LAN all onboard, removing the need to have expansion cards, 90* adaptors
and such.
As far as cooling goes, I was considering making some brackets that sorta
look like this:
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(sorry that looks like crap, but basically it attaches on the base, goes up
like 3" and then angles in, then I could mount a fan at an angle to pull air
in from one side on the top ventilation holes, then do the same deal on the
other side except exhausting. It looks like a couple 60mm case fans would
work here. I might have to cut some interior plastic [like the sides of the
hole for the top lid, they stick down like an inch or so and would impede
airflow.])