Re: Not enough slots!

[sknkwrks@mayall.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)]

In article <cJwmcc3w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung) writes:
>Hmm... I wonder, how realistic is it to construct a sort of switchbox for
>peripheral cards? Would it be safe? It'd certainly be convienient, one of
>my GS's has run out of slots and now I'm using a second one.

It's been done before...a company called SCRG had a switchbox with 4
slots.  I think you could only switch cards when the computer was off
and you could only use relatively slow cards (no disk controllers,
etc.), but if you needed more slots, it would do the job.  They also
sold an extension cable that would run a slot outside your machine;
you could then plug and unplug cards as needed without opening the
machine.  (This, I think, would work with faster cards.)

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