9 Jul
2013
9 Jul
'13
1 p.m.
> > I am curious about the "Model 3 in a
Model I case." I've never
> > heard of this transplant. Was it a commercial kit, a common hack or
> > a one-off feat? Was any additional hardware needed to make it work?
Joe Garner (Elcompco) used to mount model 3 motherboards with a 5 inch
monitor into Halliburton attache cases for portable elevator data
acquisition systems. Later, he switched to a CP/M board and even tried to
market it (THAT lasted about 6 hours, until Adam Osborne made his
announcement), later, he switched to 5150, and then to Megatel Quark.
I think that he now uses commercial laptops.
My intention at the time was to wire-wrap the extra
bits, including a
disk controller and a serial port. One thing stopped me from doing that.
I want to a radio rally (Hamfest) to see if I could find any useful bits
(like PCBs with WD disk cotnrolelr chips, flippy drives, etc). And I
bought a complete M3. Oh well...
Sometimes, projects just don't work out, . . .