Re: GS in a Tower

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall) writes:

>I am considering sticking my GS in a tower case (mainly for
>portability) and I am interested in anyone else who has already done
>this.   I am particularily interested in how to set up the seriel and
>keyboard ports so they can be accessed from outside the case.  I also
>would like to know how easy it was to mount the 3.5" apple drive.
>	Also should I try to mount the mother board in the tower case,
>or just stick the whole GS case (excluding cover) inside?
>	And, lastly, was the IBM powersupply easy to modify to power
>the GS mother board?

Heh, you're lucky, I finally did it this week :) It was no hassle at all,
once I had all the parrts, the work was done in a couple of hours.

What follows now is how I got my GS into the tower. You have to have one
of them "Big Towers", a desktop or midi tower won't do the trick.

Open your tower. Have a look inside. You'll probably see a cage for
mounting 3.5" drives hidden (3 of them could go there). Remove it, it's in
the way. Oh? You don't have that cage? Only space for 6 5.25" drives?
All the better. Open your GS. Remove the power supply. Remove the speaker.
Isinde the tower, unscrew the cage that holds the tower's speaker, take
the speaker out, stuff your GS speaker in, screw the cage in place again.
Now, stuff your GS with the nose under the speaker's cage. Look at
the rear of the GS. You should see two or so screw holes in the tower just
a little behind the rear end of the GS. If that is NOT so (as it was for
me), it's probably because the GS's nose does not go far enough under the
speaker cage. In that case, remove the plastic cover of your GS's nose
and try again. Now it should fit snuggly.

Ok. Now, get some metal to secure the rear end of the GS. 

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