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Anyone interested in one of these shipped in USA for 200 USD?

PM Me. There's only a couple left.

Great deal.....just made sure I got mine.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ADVANTECH-AWS-842TP ... .m20.l1116

This is an incredibly Sore DFick Deal. The chassis alone is 700 USD w/o a PSU. I investigated the seller who has a great track record and guarentees no DOA'a? Who cares about the insudes, I want the chassis.

Good Luck to whoever might need a 6U live or in the studio.

It's for stage where size is a non issue. XITE-1's projects are too large for a normal LCD anyway.
I would never program on this. Only on another large screen at home or in the studio.
This is just for loading the project and jammimg, but still having a small reference.
Now when I program I can use a much larger screen.
Once I started using Bidule and VDAT for live mixing my 19" rackmounted LCD is too small.
This will be for my 8U mobile rig next year, and a Bose L1. Fast set ups, and tear downs w/ mobility are crucial.

Speaking of small LCD's I typed in these posts on a iPhone 3G something or other the Bartender had.
My spelling was terrible due to the little bitty LCD.
BTW I have researched this PC and it will house 3 x full length Scope cards. Maybe I'll pack it w/ 3 x Pro's just for a cool mobile rig w/ 2 x controllers.
For 200 USD I can't lose. It's a dual CPU mobo w/ 8 PCI / ISA backplane. Windows 98 too.
My cards should work just fine w/ MS98 shouldn't it?

Jimmy, as I see it, it comes in two versions one with: 4 ISA, 2 PCI and 1 CPU slot, and another version with 8 ISA slots. Check the link to the ebay page.

You know you cant put an ATX motherboard in there without modifying it right?
I ordered on for CNC, but its only getting a VIA EPIA motherboard inside.

There's 8 PCI for the particular model I got, and the cards would fit @ 14.75 inches width.
But I am having it modified to use the DFI jr. mATX anyway.

If Scope 5.0 / Xite-1 has an updated STS5000 that is 64bit and can hold 4GB's of DDRII, I will just use Scope only to load 6 custom sample sets, and an ITX from Supermicro. It's an OEM only mobo, but it will use the G45 chipset, and 2 x HDD's is all I need if I use Scope only. VDAT / STS on one HDD, and O.S. + Apps. on the other.

I have a friend back in LVgas who customizes everything, and says he can make it work w/ either mobo. I originally had another model I was going to buy for 650 USD, but the shipping and handling was so high I decided to shop around. Guess I got lucky.

The 2 x 19" LCD's I use onstage are never even needed once I start playing, they are strictly cosmetic. I can use both sides of my ATA and have a whole PA w/ hardware effects and analog synth in an 8U design. Sure beats carrying around 28U.

More power, smaller size................That's what I call a good upgrade.

i got one for $149 or something. it is perfect for CNC. once i replace the 640x480 display with a 1024x768 touch screen one. there is room inside for the CNC breakout card and servo drivers, as well as the massive toroid to power them. hey maybe the CPU in there is good enough to run mach3. is it an intel at least?


The keyboard membrane thing might be cool, i think you need a DOS program to program the function keys under the screen. otherwise ill just stick some usb thing there.

BSI had the same design basically, It's a Dual PII design SBC.
I'll toy with it until I grow weary, then strip it to the bone for stage.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1602/ ... index.html

Interesting article on DFI's ABS software.
One can set up an OC'd preset of sorts, and by pressing F1, you DFI / ABS equipped mobo gets a shot of Nitro... sounds like fun. Might need it for a PhysMod VSTi due out at NAMM 2009. Supposedly the VSTi will create the sound scuplting through PhysMod, then you can render it to your favorite sampler format.

I'll try anything to drown ny sorrows while I wait for XITE-1. . . .

http://rackmountmart.stores.yahoo.net/n ... acch4.html
THIS IS THE REAL McCOY !!

Ok i just got this. its a fairly good case for what i need but i think you will not be happy putting a modern pc in there.
If you did not get it yet DON'T!

1: the computer is a SBC (single board computer) which sits on pci and isa slots on the backplane board. 4 ISA and 3+2 PCI slots(2 slots face the opposite way, if you took out some ISA cards you could put full length cards on all 5 slots). 1 stick of RAm 2 slots. it looks like 256Mb i dint look close.
2: it is a celeron 433
3: it has some strange ISA serial cards, i expect for some kind of machine control also printer card
4: a standard 3com PCI NIC from the time.
5: the LCD is only 640x480 and uses an ISA card. (but it is a semi standard interface)
6: it has windows NT 4 on a 8 GB drive partitioned into 2
7: it has a laptop CD-ROM drive with adapter for use on PATA slot (cool item worth about $20) half height floppy drive
8: i think i can adapt the membrane keyboard to work with USB
9: special "keyboard merger" board with a ancient z80 or something CPU of its own just for the membrane key macros
10: standard AT (not atx) power supply, the kind you can turn on and off with a physical switch rather than pins on the motherboard.
11: atleast its an intel chipset!


you could never fit any motherboard which has 3 PCI slots on it in there. probably need to cut it a bit even to put in a MATX (ill have a look on the weekend)

You will 100 times better off if you get a small computer of some kind as long as it has the right expansion slot or cardbus
even a laptop can be strapped down inside the rack.
get one of those 1 or 2U pull out drawer monitor and keyboard things.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/IBM-Rack-Mount-15-T5 ... 286.c0.m14
then the whole lot could only take 3-5U when closed. including the XCITE-1

just in case your interested
what i plan to do with this expensive computer case.

I have a small milling machine which i am converting to CNC use. I have most of the stuff for it and most of the actual mechanical work is done.
I need a rather simple computer to run the "mach3" software which controls the servos which move the mill XYZ

I have a MATX p3 board with a printer port I will try and fit in there, otherwise i have a tiny VIA EPIA thing which will easily fit
Small cheap hard drive, maybe even use the one in there.
keep the CD-ROM and floppy drives for installing
try and get the membrane keyboard to work.
drill some holes for X,Y, and Z manual encoder knobs and emergency stop button for the Milling machine it will control
replace the screen with one that uses a normal video connection with a touch screen. (basically replaces the functions of the buttons under it, which is where the XYZ controls will be.

in the bottom cavity i will put a small ATX PSU i have and a rather large toroidal transformer and capacitor to power the motors on the mill.
also i will maybe find space for the actual motor controllers. but i may have to make a small external box for them.

Sell the crap inside on ebay as "industrial SBC computer with backplane and accessories!" it would be funny if i got as much as i paid
or maybe set it up to use my ISA gravis ultrasound MAX which i still have, and fasttrackerIII for some authentic DOS tracker sound.

I only wanted the case.
My Brosky is working on modding it right now.
After consulting with him he wants to make a dual ITX DAW.........???
But he's quite sharp w/ audio/video DAW's.
He had the Pentium M780 OC'd running Scope & Gigastudio years back before anyone even knew what Pentium M's were. It even had a PCI-X Raid card running RAID 3.
If he says he can do it, I tend to believe him.

He claims the Supermicro ITX using the G45 chipsets can run an XITE-1 and an RME card. 2 computers in 1 box??? I gotta see this.
He will be getting an XITE-1 also. Having him on this forum would really benfit people who record video and audio. I blame him and GaryB for my addictions.