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[The Fifth Horseman]

Mini tower won't be bad either - that's (supposedly) the type I am using right now, and you can fit about everything that's neccesary - altough it will take a bit of effort to avoid having the case cluttered with cabling.

The HDD mobile rack has been purchased. Unfortunately, I was unable to obtain another EasyTouch-produced unit - which is a bit annoying since I already use two of these things - but the configuration works exactly as I expected.

I'm going to get a new cooler for the CPU, and do some cleaning & greasing on the PSU fan. If everything goes well, the noise will be drastically reduced (it's quite silent now, in fact, but I want to achieve as silent as possible without resorting to passive cooling).

[Grinder]

I am wondering wether a Roland LAPC could be fit into such a minitower. It looks pretty big.
That thing with supersilent cooler is actually a very good idea. maybe you could make a pc from 1994 with the ergonomics etc. from 2004. That would be cool.
how are you going to use the removable HD for transferring games? do you have a bay on either pc?

[The Fifth Horseman]

I am wondering wether a Roland LAPC could be fit into such a minitower. It looks pretty big.

To me, it looks like LAPC will fit by a small margin. To my knowledge, the cases are standarised (or at least semi-standarised) in terms of length, while height varies between each size.


About the data transfer, I have a different bay on the other PC, I guess I'll just have to make an occasional switch or use CD-R/RW discs for transfer purposes.

Later on, I'll probably either use a null-modem connection (that is, IF my current machine will support it), or connect both computers in a miniature LAN.

I wonder if I could find DOS drivers for USB memory storage devices... that would solve everything in a pinch.

[Grinder]

good to hear that. you can find a link to USB drivers for DOS in the vintage computing thread.
if you need anything for DOS, go there. do you know anything about using two soundcards (lapc and sb16/pro)??

[The Fifth Horseman]

Nope, and not sure if that would work or not.
There are three possible results, though - both cards working, only one of them working and neither working.
If you manage to obtain an actual external MT-32 syntethiser and connect it to the MIDI port of your Sound Blaster card, everything should go well.
Though it's still worth giving LAPC-I and SB combo a try. You might actually be lucky.

[Grinder]

still, lapcs are hard to get and verrry expensive - most people that are selling them know what they're holding in their hands.

[Grinder]

I just got an old U.S. layout keyboard from a friend. It has two cables: a serial and a ps/2. Quite a find, says I!

[The Fifth Horseman]

Been working on reducing the noise of my machine.
First, I've cleaned out the PSU of all dust and greased its fan - soundless now.
Then I tried to use a newer CPU cooler - but the thing produced so much volume it was insane. I dismantled it and replaced the fan with the former one, but left the newer heat sink. Should improve the cooling efficiency a jot.

Now I am looking for a way to muffle out the HDD, because it's still quite loud (loudest component ATM).

[Grinder]

I think there are special noise reduction, 5.25" frames for HDs. You can get them from eBay.

[Quintopotere]

Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman@Dec 28 2005, 06:27 PM
Now I am looking for a way to muffle out the HDD, because it's still quite loud (loudest component ATM).

How many topics you have about that?

Anyway, you could see my answer at the one in the Technical Stuff section