When the uIEC arrived I decided not to re-use the external cdrom housing and started thinking of what I would use. My first thought was to buy an external hard drive casing and use that, it would be small, look neat and came with a power supply which would not only power the hard drive but the interface as well. Problem is most of these devices now are so small, barely bigger than the hard drive itself, that fitting the interface would be problematic.
My next idea was to use a NAS drive housing. Where I work we were sent dummy cases to have on display so people could see what our NAS drives looked like, these were real cases however there was no drive or electronics inside, perfect!! As we no longer stocked one particular brand I decided to see if the dummy was still in our storeroom.... It wasn't. Someone had a cleaned it up and thrown away alot of unused bits, it was one.
So, where to next? Then I remembered years ago being given a badly damaged Cardco CSD-1, or for you Australians out there, a SKYE 64. It was beyond repair and I was only keeping it for parts, so I decided I would gut the housing and put the pcb and all parts in a safe place while giving the case a new purpose in life!
What follows will be a brief run down of how I went about it, with pictures.
I hope it's interesting :)
Mike
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