Re: Big Time IIe mod

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

"Liam Busey" <buseyl@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<vh1jegcjesn17a@corp.supernews.com>...
> Bill Knight <admin@ghettogamer.com> wrote in message
> news:WgZPa.14758$C07.13925@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
> - snip project hacking PC into IIe case while retaining IIe motherboard -
> 
> Interesting project. I like many here would love to have an Apple II with
> the power of a modern PC. You seem to be doing this literally. ;) May I ask
> if this is to be a conversation piece or a workhorse? If it's to be used
> regularly reliability is a major concern. The biggest issue that pops into
> my mind is heat. The idea of an Athlon, Nividia GPU and a IIe sharing a
> small poor ventilated case seems to work against that. Fully loaded IIe's
> are known to be toasty and many people ran/run them with their lids off.
> Your proposed design would likely be much warmer. In order too cool it
> adequately I imagine you'd have to install multiple fans virtually requiring
> you cut holes in the IIe case, deterring from the visual appeal of the hack.
> To avoid that, why not dump the IIe components and use an emulator in there
> place?
> 

If you find a way to connect //e components to the PC, I'd be willing
to customize "my" emulator for your hardware.

-uso.