Reply 140 of 614, by candle_86
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wrote:I pulled apart this Tandy 1000SL late last night and took a look at the feasibility of repurposing the case for my xi8088. […]
I pulled apart this Tandy 1000SL late last night and took a look at the feasibility of repurposing the case for my xi8088.
It's a pretty big/roomy case, so it's no surprise that the motherboard actually fits well internally, none of the 8 slots will be blocked completed, and only a few are blocks length-wise by the built-in speaker. Right now the only thing holding it in place are the two expansion cards.
The mounting holes for the Tandy motherboard are (unsurprisingly) completely wrong for the micro-atx backplane. The three along the back of the case are not in any danger of causing a short circuit but the three staggered along the middle of the case are of great concern to me.
The two smallish cards above and to the left of the motherboard are the audio interface card and the joystick/keyboard interface card. I've left them in there mostly to avoid losing them in my giant stack of parts. However, when I looked more closely at the audio interface card, it occured to me that possibly I could use that as an interface to a Soundblaster card.
The audio interface card has mic/line in, audio out, volume control, and a reset button. There are eight pins connecting the daughterboard to the main 1000SL motherboard, so that has me wondering if there's simply four sets of two pins, one set per front-panel connectors. If that's the case, I should be able to leverage that potentially utilize the internal Tandy speaker along with the built-in amplifier chip and volume potentiometer for audio, and the input, speaker jack, and reset button. At the very LEAST I think I can use the front speaker (sans volume control) and reset switch.
*edit*
I'm going to make this into a seperate post, this is far beyond any xi8088 specific discussion.
For the ones in the middle of the case, you can place felt between them and the board should make sure it makes contact