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-----Original Message-----
From:	Paul Haneberg [SMTP:phaneber@...]
Sent:	Monday, April 14, 2003 6:24 PM
To:	'media.nai@...'
Subject:	RE: [motm] rack cases for motm

Okay, an explanation:

First off, building a case with those proportions was not my idea, I'm just 
commenting on someone else's idea.
A 200U case would not only be large it would also be quite heavy, perhaps 
weighing 400 or 500 lbs. If the power supply were included.  It might be 
possible to go to 8" deep instead of 10"  if you didn't include any Blacet 
conversions. That would make the case 32" wide and 72" tall for roughly 
170U which is how many units my own cabinet holds (I wish I could say it 
was filled!)

Secondly, the "16" would be at right angles to the 1, 4 and 9.  The case 
would be 4 dimensional.

Thirdly, before anyone thinks I'm totally wacked, The Sentinel was a short 
story written by Arthur C Clarke as sort of a sketch of what later became 
2001.  The Sentinel became the black monolith of 2001 which had dimensions 
in a 1:4:9:16 ratio.  It was built in 4 spatial dimensions.  Being a lover 
of science fiction, I originally thought building a case with those 
dimensions was a fantastic idea, just as naming a synthesizer Darmok is 
truly inspired imho.

Paul Haneberg



-----Original Message-----
From:	media.nai@... [SMTP:media.nai@...]
Sent:	Monday, April 14, 2003 1:00 PM
To:	phaneber@...; 'motm@yahoogroups.com'
Subject:	RE: [motm] rack cases for motm

At 10:51 PM -0400 4/13/03, Paul Haneberg wrote:
>Regarding the Sentinel, I believe the proper proportions are 1:4:9:16 !!!!
>I'd love to see someone build a case like that.
>I'm not sure I'd want to get too close to it though.

How do you get the 16??  If it's proportions are 1:4:9, and the
minimum depth is 10", then it would be 90" tall and 40" wide.

It would also be 200 MOTM units worth of modules, and if you built
kits at an average price of $100 per unit, that's $20K!!  We'll all
be living in outer space before I can afford that on a modular.