First of all lat me say that aleksej inspired whit is post: "[WIP] Midget Riot: 486 PC in booksize industrial case." [WIP] Midget Riot: 486 PC in booksize industrial case.

So i started to google the sh*t out of ebay for reasonable price ( since i live in sweded and most part was in us the shipping price was a nightmare ) for something equal to aleksej setup since.. ye its space saving 😀

I ended up first geting a 486 sbc with AT backplane which the shipping price was reasonable since it was from greece and tought sure i can try to find a small case with backplane later on.

After a while i found something called Eaton Cutler Hammer NETLINK ( ye i bought all 3 netlink ebay had give by giving the sellers 50%+ less of the price they where asking for, which they all accepted 😀 ), which basicly is a industrial network pc which eaton has config to be a connection to ups's com interface. Problebly the way to go at that time when network interface wasnt a "thing" on ups..?

The inside didnt really intrest me that much after i recived a sbc that needed to be hard configured to resolution and made it hard to work with dos game in diffrent resolutions.

In between whit wast of money on many sbc/industrial pc stuff i found something called "Boser HS5210 HS-5210 Half Sized Socket 7 Extended ISA SBC" ( after aleksej told me that the other boards cant communicate with pci which i was a tard to understand at first 😉 )

So my journey started to find a backplane which could fit the industrial case from eaton that i already had laying around.
Finally i found one whit reasonable price from uk: Kontron PISA-2P3I4 5 Slot PISA Backplane (non RoHS), RoHS who needs that on backplane? 😜 The backplane gives me 2 pisa, 2 pci and one isa, and that is problebly everything needed to insert a 200 mmx with Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 CT4520 and a orchid righteous 3dfx pci card, and ye i had to have a ide to cf for now, will problebly use a ide to sata with ssd disk later on. Also changed two of the fans to Noctua of course ( cpu fan to be changed to one also ).

And ending up with following result:

3dfx card to choose from:

SBC:

Backplane:

Front:

Front fan:

Front, size matters:

Back fan:

Left side of case:

Right side with air flow mounts:

To do is to:
* check temperature 😉
* clean the case from stickers like windows embeded, netlink and so on.
* add hd led, reset button

And ye still waiting for my sound card to arrive any day now.... big shout-out to schenker for trying to for 3 weeks now....