My A4000 tower
I found some rather nice AT towers during a summer a couple of years ago when I was taking a walk around our neighborhood. One tower was a huge old school big tower. It was tall, massive and robust with a cool sliding door on the front. The other tower was a super small mini baby AT tower. I was surprised to find a Pentium motherboard, a Pentium 133 MHz CPU and 32 MB memory (which back then were a lot). Back then it was popular to modify Amiga computers inside PC towers and big towers where almost exclusively used. But I always thought that using a tower as big as 60 cm tall for a rather small Amiga motherboard was unnecessary.
By observing the small mini tower I noticed that it was not that small at all, at least not on the inside. It could easily hose a normal AT PC motherboard with a normal PSU without any problems. The Amiga 4000 motherboard is almost the same size as the AT standard was in the PC world. I measured the tiny box over and over again and came to the conclusion that it would be possible to fit an Amiga 4000 inside it. It would be a very tight fit -if the Amiga motherboard had been one centimeter taller it would not have fit the case. After about two weeks the case was finally taking shape. It was a challenging task to mount the Amiga 4000 motherboard in the small case.
After much time spent on the case I came to the conclusion that I was not satisfied with the look of the case with the Amiga inside it. The reason was that I had to mount my 5.25 units vertical since there was not any space left to mount them horizontal as they was meant to be. This did not look nice, something I wished I knew before I started to chop of plastic from the front panel of the case. After three months I decided to mount my Amiga parts back into the original A4000 desktop case. But one thing is for sure, it was an extremely small case and it is interesting that so much hardware could be squeezed into it. I am a perfectionist, in reality there was not so much wrong with the case. But I like nice design. And truly this case did not look half as cool with the 5.25 slots vertical as it looked with them horizontal.
Hardware:
Phase 5 Cyberstorm 060 mk2 with SCSI module.
64 MB memory, 2 MB chip memory.
Phase 5 Cybervision 64 3D with Scandoubler module.
LanRover ASDG NIC.
Buddha/Catweasel Zorro2 card.
Elbox Zorro 3 7-slot doughtercard.
Harddrive, floppydrive, tapestreamer and CD-rom.