Re: How about a new case? (was: Re: SUCCESS!!! GS Internal 3.5 Drive!!!)

[schefflr@news.msus.edu (Bill Scheffler)]

Erick Dietrich (madsci@tribeca.ios.com) wrote:

: Why not a new case altogether?  Something designed for the Apple IIgs from
: the gound up.  Give it a Buggie power supply, and maybe some custom drive
: bays for mounting common Apple II drives.  Or better yet, make standard
: drive bays and custom brackets.  Add a nice big fan and a filter, and give
: it feet so you can use it as a tower or a desktop.

: Put a bunch of lights, for your accellerator, hard disk, etc on the front,
: along with a power and (is this possible?) a reset switch.

	That would be neat.

: Maybe make it black or something, just for the hell of it.  And put the
: Apple II Forever logo on the front. I could go on, but you get the idea.

	I like the platinum color.  Maybe allow the customer to choose his
color?

: Does anyone have the resources to make this a reality? Personally, I would
: love to move my IIgs out of its case, but I won't because of the asthetics
: of the thing.  I really have no desire to make my little IIgs into a great
: big PC-thing.

	I dislike PC cases.  However, if a new custom case could be built
(a bit bigger to make room for internal options (hard drives, 3.5" disk
drives, tape backups).  I also like the idea of hard drive, accelerator,
ect. lights on the front of the case.  But then again, with my gs,
monitor, system saver, modem, and speakers my gs already looks like a
christmas tree!  Great idea though.  Make it a "kit" so we can have some
of that "do it yourself" mystique.

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