Rack Mountable PC Chassisessess...

[John Speth]

We get numerous catalogs from companies that sell PC racks and cards and I can confirm what Paul Perry says about price, etc.  One alternative to rack mounting a PC is to invest in those stackable PC cards.  I think they call it the PC104 format.  They are small foot print cards that are almost always Intel based PCs or peripherals that just plain stack up.  The backplane bus is actually built into each card.  They aren't dirt cheap but much cheaper than buying a rack.

John Speth
Object Engineering, Inc.
johns at oei.com

-----Original Message-----
From:	Paul Perry [SMTP:pfperry at melbpc.org.au]
Sent:	Thursday, June 11, 1998 4:11 AM
To:	synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
Subject:	Re: Rack Mountable PC Chassisessess...

At 10:37 PM 10/06/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>Since there has been a lot of talk about generic rack-mounting housing:
>
>Does anybody know if anyone makes PC boxes that are rack-mountable?

there are plenty of these,made for process control, industrial sites etc.
The problem is,not being a huge volume business, they are NOT cheap...
and usually they are shock mounted and proof against dust etc, good for
on the road, but again not cheap.

paul perry melbourne australia

BTW, if I was trying to DIY this setup, for cheap I would use a tower box,
with homebrew bracing into a rack, and use a old cheap laptop as a remote,
running a dumb terminal emulator on it..
those industrial jobs i mentioned above usually have fold or slideaway
keyboards. You can get rackmount draws, which could hold the laptop.