CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE:

->> I had yanked the chip out of the Compaq thinking that I'd
->> put it in a box here, but then found that the MB jumpers
->> for voltage won't go *quite* far enough in the right
->> direction, so it's sitting here.. Oh well. I don't want to
->> use that box itself because it has a *teeny* little power
->> supply in there. 

WC> SFX alright. 

CA> I know this is terribly 'geeky' and all that but whats to stop a
CA> person from just sitting a HUGE powersupply _outside/alongside_ the 
CA> tower rather than finding one that fits _inside_ the tower? I 
CA> remember one of my friends having 3 hard drives sitting on the 
CA> table with his XT computer with longish ribbon cables connecting 
CA> them to the machine. It worked. Looked very geeky but it worked. 

Lack of space,  and more,  the length of the cable,  and finally,  a lack
of any handy "extra" ATX power supplies...

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