Routers, switches, machine room and lockable racks (was Re: [tech] Switchesu)

[James Andrewartha]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Nick Bannon wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:49:28PM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> [...]
> > one ATX case, blue, 3 5.25 bays, with a removable motherboard tray
> 
> Desktop case is a must for this, I'm afraid - JP's thinking of a
> tower... JP and I think we might be able to munge one of the AT
> rackmount cases into something suitable for a Socket370 ATX
> system.

You can get socket 370 and slot 1 boards that will take AT power. OTOH how
much do ATX power supplies cost and could we retrofit one into a rackmout
case?

> > and a pci video card, if we can't squeeze one into an isa slot ;)
> > of which I also have a working one.
> 
> That could be handy - a new MB may not have an ISA slot. ::-)

As other ppl have noted, most of the cheap ones that accept AT power
generally have onboard video.

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