CompuServe Messages

Wow, sounds like you did quite a bit of hacking to your system! My A1200 has what looks like an A500 power supply with revised cooling slots on the top (less safe, but better ventilation). I had suspected that it was marginal, because on mine, any use of the external floppy drive caused some moderate flickering on the screen–maybe sagging voltages, I thought. Since I like to run most of my computing devices from solar power, I did not wish to use a larger power supply or multiple ones, preferring the energy efficient route instead. My main gripe was that I could not readily use a 2.5" SCSI drive, which would've been really convenient for me, since I had one onhand, but as it turned out, it was cheaper for me to simply buy a new IDE drive than to buy a SCSI adaptor at this time. You mentioned a door over the clock area–I didn't know that there were provisions for a (battery backed with calendar?) clock on the motherboard, though I *did* notice the empty area for a 68882. Maybe I'll look into that $30 Microbotics clock–I never did take a close look at it, figuring that it went into the expansion bay, precluding the installation of fast RAM. Or do you know of a better, cheaper alternative?