[aclug-L] Re: gateway boxes

["Greg House" <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll echo that. I have a Gateway at work that appears to be a std ATX case.
It's one of those that you can flip up to make a tower or lay on it's side
as a desktop. The CDROM/floppy & stuff are in a little module which can be
removed & rotated depending on how you want it.

I built a couple of system using surplus motherboards that had been Gateway
boards (OEMed from Intel), and they had the PS/2 mouse & keyboard connectors
in non-standard fashion (ie, they were AT boards, but didn't have an AT
style keyboard connector). I had to hack up one case to have access to them,
and use a weird old case they were throwing out at work for the other one
(it had a highly non-standard setup in it anyhow...)

So, it may or may not be very standard. My impression is that the newer
Gateway machines are more standard then the older ones, but I could be way
off base.

Greg


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 8:35 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: gateway boxes


>Most/all desktop gateways I've seen are proprietary.
>
>I have a full-tower Gateway case that came from a 486/33.  I've got my
>K6-III/450 in it now.  It's standard AT.
>
>I guess it depends a bit on the case.  You can usually tell just by looking
>at the back of the case.
>
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:50:59AM -0600, phrostie wrote:
>> i had noticed up at trailing edge that there were a number of gateway
boxes.
>> does anyone know if these fit standard boards or are they like the dells,
wysiwyg?
>>
>> --
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>> and danced the skies on LINUX silvered wings.
>> http://www.cottagesoft.com/~phrostie/cad-tastrafy
>>
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