In the Right Corner

Building A Portable or putting an Apple II into a PC or Macintosh desktop or tower case. There is really not much difference between building either a Portable or Alternate Cased Apple II system. The main difference is that the portable is a little smaller and requires somewhat more planning and aquisition of esoteric parts. Also required is alot more work in getting the pieces to fit where you want. Some things are meant to be, somethings have to forced. Your job will be about right down the middle of the road between those two extremes.

 Pictoral Explanations

The Portable Images

..but thanks to the Dremel Company...

 Our job is accomplished much easier. Things need to be hacked, chopped, gutted and more if you really want it to fit. Cards may need to be on their side, keyboards made smaller, drives put into different mounting brackets behind strange faceplates. How much of this is nessesary? As much or as little as it takes to utililize the enclosure choices you have made.

 One of the biggest concerns in this type of project is the disk drive. There are many ways to attack this portion of the project. You will learn that your local PC Clone Store can be your best freind throughout this whole project. You will discover that alot of basic hardware items can be used, and used well.

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