Re: towerized IIgs

[ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione)]

   How about a 1" x 1" x 2 foot long strip of non-conductive styrofoam 
with notches in it to hold the top edges of the cards?  It could be anchored 
on the top and bottom by duct tape.

Tony

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Michael Hackett (at217@chebucto.ns.ca) wrote:
> Devin Reade (gdr@eddore.myrias.com) wrote:
> > For those of you who have put your IIgs in a tower case, how have
> > you dealed with the problem of making sure the cards don't work
> > their way out (since they would be mounted sideways)?  Unless some
> > form of restraining device is used, I would expect either the
> > memory card or the other cards to work free when in a vertical
> > orientation.  For a horizontal orientation, I would expect excessive
> > stress on both the cards and the connectors.

> When I was putting together my tower, I asked the same thing.
> Everyone I heard from said that they hadn't bothered with any sort
> of card bracket as they'd not had any problems. I was still a bit
> concerned, but my board's been on its side for a year now, and even
> been through a couple of fairly rough moves (with the cards still
> in place), and I've not had any problems or noticed the cards
> working loose. (However, being horizontal now, they do catch the
> dust better.)

> If you or anyone else comes up with a good solution, I'd love to
> take a look and consider adding it to my tower. I think all of my
> cards are pretty much the same height, but I suppose there might
> be big enough differences to make it difficult to use a totally
> flat support.