One of these days (soon), i'm gonna get me one of these .... I guess from CA...
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:19 AM, PeterH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > > > It usually takes a lot more volume of plastic to achieve the same > > structural strength, especially when using un-reinforced plastics, > > as used in Apple's computer cases. > > The ANS uses reinforced ABS in the cabinet base, which also holds the > PSUs (700) or the PSU (500). > > The ABS is many times heavier than that used in one of its PowerMac > contemporaries. > > The ANS uses very heavy gauge steel for the functional part of the > case, which is also part of its physical security feature, which > requires unique access keys. > > The ANS case is primed and painted with an epoxy coating which is > both very durable and very expensive. Cosmetic repairs are usually > more expensive than replacement of the affected panel with a new one, > or a good used one salvaged from a donor ANS. > > The cabinet is 17 x 19 x 14-5/8, with most of that being heavy gauge > steel. > > The ANS is an all-metric machine, with many fasteners being the now > archaic (within officially metric countries) M3.5-0.6 size. > > It is quite obvious that an industrial design group managed the > design of the ANS cabinet. There is none of the flimsiness of the > contemporary 8500 and 9500. > > The serviceability features one expects from an industrial product > are there, too, and a major component, such as the motherboard, may > be replaced in a few minutes, not an hour or so as on the > contemporary 8500 and 9500. > > A special version of the Mylex (formerly IBM, now LSI Logic) DAC960 > RAID card was offered, but the cable connections differed from the > nearly identical generic "PD" series of DAC960 cards, although the > same connections are present on both. > > The motherboard and the RAID card firmware are arranged so that the > absence of the RAID card causes the two on-motherboard UW-SCSI > channels to service the UW-SCSI hot-pluggable drive trays, whereas > the presence of the RAID card causes the RAID card to service those > same trays. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
