macs/digital audio etc

[CHoaglin at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/8/01 8:28:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
goddard.duncan at mtvne.com writes:

<< >>>When I was consulting for Apple we took to calling the Macintosh II the 
"desktop
 > airport" it was so loud in comparison to the all in one Mac.<<<
 >  >>

I've been thinking about the fan noise issue lately as well..It's not a 
critical issue right now, but will be if I want to do any open air recording 
down the road. I'm probably going to get a 1 unit rackmount box and modify it 
so that a mac motherboard yet (I haven't decided what I'll go with yet for a 
board, which will govern how the case gets done, but It'll probably be end up 
being an LC of some variety, either a 68040 LC475 or a 68030 LC. I'd punch 
out the back of the chassis with the correct holes for the connectors, then 
mount the board in there, and add a large heatsink out of my junk box on the 
processor rather than using a the fan from the machine. I've also been toying 
with the idea of mounting a mac SE on top of the rack, but then there's the 
issue of where to put the monitor for the PC I plan to mount in the rack for 
doing sampling and recording. With an LC board running a midi monitor, I 
could use a mac-PC video connector adapter and a video switch to switch the 
monitor between the two systems.

Chris