Greetings
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From: "Mark Rode" <[log in to unmask]>

> I was at an electronic supply store yesterday and saw something
interesting
> in their <bargain bin> for 25 bucks.
> Computer midtower cases that appeared like a very well
made.....heavy
> steel....mid tower AT case with a floppy drive.  I was told that
they were
> Compaq propriety computers with proprietary cases that were ready to
go or
> build up with Compaq parts only. I was told they don't take standard
parts.
> They knew nothing else about them.
>
> Closer inspection ..peaking through the cracks ....reveled what
appeared to
> be a circuit board on the narrow bottom of the case with two very
long
> empty slots that I didn't recognize. Anybody have an idea what these
> are.....I was thinking disk less workstations but they seem big for
that
> and the case is really substantial and heavy duty...like something
you
> would see in a server. Any ideas ??
>
This is just speculation...Like Packard Bell and a few others, Compaq
machines that
I have looked at show a fondness for riser cards.  Is it possible that
this design is a
sort of "back-plane" arrangement into which processor and other
peripheral cards
are seated?

FWIW,

Paul A. Shippert  Library/Media Specialist
      Margaret Brent Middle School
"If con is the opposite of pro, then
is congress the opposite of progress?"
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