🚀 go-pugleaf

From article <763@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>, by lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips):
> In <1105@taurus.BITNET>, finkel@TAURUS.BITNET writes:
>>Anyway, I have a friend who owns an A1000. due to several reasons, he
>>wants to try and hook an A590 to his A1000. reasons are:
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>He doesn't mind sticking it backwards, or even doing some mechanical
>>hacking to make it fit. ( It looks to me that he will have to take it apart
>>or at least to saw the metal plate under the expansion connector which
>>extends beyond the expansion connector. ).
>>
>>My question is: Will the A590 work with an A1000??
> 
> Absolutely!
> 
> It will be backwards, and you'll have to look at the back end of it.
> 
> You can either saw off the flange on the bottom metal plate, or (better), cut
> away some of the plastic on the bottom edge of the expansion connector access
> hole on the A1000 itself.
> 

Would there be a problem with hacking up something like a gender changer
to have the box sit upright at least?  Of course it will still be facing
the wrong way...


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