This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Case Hacks (Was: Im a new lamer, testing)
Article: 7886 of alt.hackers From: emerson@sfsu.edu (Russell Pickett) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Case Hacks (Was: Im a new lamer, testing) Date: 26 May 1995 00:05:17 GMT Organization: the mercy of his .edu account Lines: 40 Approved: Barely Message-ID: 3q35vt$1j2@news.csus.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: @orion.sfsu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.2 Status: RO
In article <3q2pcl$lql@horus.infinet.com>, twemling@infinet.com says... > >ObIBMHardwareHack: > >One of the users at work had an IBM 8512 monitor on which we needed >to adjust the height. The swivel bases on the 8513's were perfect, >except that there were ridges molded into the housing of the 8512 >which prevented us from attaching the 8513 base. I scored along the >bases of the ridges with a utility knife, then took a screwdriver >and HACKED the ridges off the housing. The 8513 swivel base fit >perfectly. OH: Building a 486 box out of spare parts laying around for Linux (those of you who follow the saga of my home Ethernet know what THAT means... time for multi-protocol 'net config hacks from hell to start showing up in a few weeks...) Have 150MB SCSI drive, 5-1/4", full height, from about 1985. Weighs about 110 pounds. Have new, sexy, little micro-tower case, with only 3-1/2" HD bays. It has two 5-1/4" floppy/CDROM/etc bays with steel drive rail guides between them. Solution: Hammer and screwdriver to bend back and/or break off all eight of the drive rail guides. Suddenly, I have one, monster, 5-1/4" full-height drive bay, which my boat anchor drive fits into perfectly. The next fun part was chopping a hole in the plastic case cover so that I could mount the 3-1/2" floppy into one of the empty HD bays. That should theoretically count as another hack, but then I'd have to describe all over again why my floppy bays were full and my HD bays empty... -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ R Pickett * This line under construction -- pardon our dust.* emerson@sfsu.edu Not responsible blahblahblah my own words blahblah, emerson@opcode.com blahblah reflect the opinions blahblah get it blah? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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