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

[madsci@tribeca.ios.com (Erick Dietrich)]

> Maybe someone will start marketing less-than-full-length power supply with
> a drive mounting spot on it, and that would be just wonderful.


Hmmm.  With all this talk of people modifying the IIgs case or putting
their IIgs's in peecee cases going on, I thought I would post my ideas...

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.

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.

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.

-Erick