[MacDV] Re: DVR-105 for $170

[Thubten Kunga]

Thanks Shirley. It's wide open in front. Plenty of air gets in there.

Kunga

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 07:55  PM, Shirley Kehr wrote:

> Be sure you monitor the heat situation. Presumably that's the reason we
> were told not to put two such devices into one tower.
>
> Shirley
>
> Thubten Kunga wrote:
>>
>> I really wasn't that hard to do. Just snipping the corners off the 
>> 3.5"
>> slot with a pair of tin snips, then bending all the metal that 
>> supports
>> the 3.5" part of the bracket flat out of the way. I have the DVD-RAM
>> under the DVD-RW 105. Of course you have to forget about the perfect
>> looking front panel. I removed that to begin with and can't put it 
>> back
>> on. But My Macs are all under the table so I never see them anyway. I
>> don't care about cosmetics on a Mac that is 4 years old. It has very
>> little resale value anyway. Plus this 2 full 5.25" drive modification
>> offsets what resale value I may have subtracted by destroying Apple's
>> lame 1.5 drive setup. Mine is a 500 MHz B&W G3 from June 1999. I don't
>> plan on selling it.
>>
>> Kunga