Rack Mountable PC Chassisessess...

[KA4HJH]

John wrote:

>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.

Check out an issue of Circuit Cellar Ink. They have lots of article and ads
for this kind of thing. They've had a lot of PC104 articles in the recent
past. But--most of this stuff ain't cheap.

http://www.circuitcellar.com

 Someone was saying recently how much you could do with an old 286 ($20
with DOS installed and guranteed to work at the last hamfest I went to) or
386 that you can get for almost nothing. If you could figure out how to
package it...

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"