First post, by megatron-uk
After a long search I finally found someone selling an AT case just over a week ago.
Downside was that it looked in fairly crappy condition - the case was yellowed and the inside was filthy. PSU was questionable too.
Upside was that it was quite obviously standard AT layout, had front mounted hdd and power led's in addition to an old school speed display in a neat little black display panel.
Anyway, it arrived yesterday and I thought I'd clean it up.... cue the bleach and anti-bacterial cleaner on the inside.... and a new paintjob inside and out!
The inside is all cleaned out and sprayed in flat white and rather than going the typical beige or black on the outside, I thought I'd pick something a little more striking. I think the blue looks rather cool with the black led panel inset - a little reminiscent of the original SGI Indigo:
Need a few more bits and pieces until I can start putting my 286 project together - most important being a new ATX PSU and ATX-AT cable (none of the cards I'm using require -5v, so a standard ATX psu - preferably silent - should be fine), a set of plastic AT motherboard standoffs (different to ATX screw-in type). Then it should be all systems go!
Spec will be:
16MHz AMD 286
GW-286 baby-AT board
4 x 1Mb SIMM's
Cirrus Logic CL-GD528
Adaptec AHA1542 SCSI + IODATA SCSI-IDE bridge
WDC serial/parallel controller
Soundblaster 16
Roland MPU-IPC-T
5-1/4 drive bay IDE CF reader
I'm using the SCSI card because it supports disks up to a minimum of 8GB, and I had the SCSI-IDE bridge spare from an Amiga 1200 project.
I have one 8bit slot left and was originally contemplating a network card, but in all honesty I can't see the reason for one when I have the drive bay mounted CF reader.
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https://www.target-earth.net