GC> I don't recall who it was that came up with the post re wood cases, 
That was me.   
 GC> I am temporarily utilizing an old(metal)IBM Brand XT type chassis case 
My first was in 84-5 with an XT; I was too cheap to buy a case and built a 
4 foot tall tower case... 
 GC> to hold my AT MB. It has a 230W PS, and works fine except that it has 
 GC> limited space for two floppy or CDROM drive/floppy. 
Which later held a 286 just fine.... I bought a 1X10  and a 1X6 to make a 
box 4 foot tall, 9" wide inside for the mthbd, and 5 inches wide across  
the front for floppy drives. I found a deal and got two 5¬" that put 720 
on a standard floppy in addition to my original IBM (tandon) FDs. That 
gave me 2.16 meg of drive storage without swapping floppies. I thought it 
was pretty hot shit at the time.  Anyway there was the problem of 4 full 
height floppie drives, and the tower seemed the only reasonalble thing. 
Nowadays that would be 8 standard 5«" drive slots. 
 
I had used cheap white pine, which warped from the heat of the 286 mthbd 
a little.  A decent woodworker might do it with laminated quarter sawn 
strips an inch or so wide which would not warp if glued up right. 
 GC> have is the high RF disruption of the Television screen...  
Gary, I dunno how much you wanna put up with. My woodcased 386sx was 
pretty bad on channels 7 & 11, but not much on 4 & 6. But: I'm about as 
deep a fringe as you will find... in a canyon on the NE side of a mtn 
with channels 4,7,&11 from the south a hundred miles to Litle Rock, or 
PBS 6, which is only 30 miles to Mountain View. I did use RG-58 coax 
to an outdoor 33' antenna mast w/ 10' Yagi.  The easiest thing is a 
coax and outdoor antenna or cable TV. 
 GC>        2) How would RF be affected in an RV type use. I am 
 GC>        placing a MB in the base of a wood(multi-purpose) RV TV type 
 What mthbd? the power consumption of some of them will drain your RV 
 battery in a half hour.  And, a color VGA will cut runtime to 15 min. 
 If you have a lotta heat to get rid of, you will have to buy a bunch 
 of batteries.  It would be cheaper to buy an appropriate 486, or maybe 
one of the 8 watt AMD 586s than all the batteries you will need. 
 GC> Is their any more of a fire hazard with wood rather than with those 
 GC> ugly flymsy plastic cases? 
Again, how hot is your CPU? get a cool one. a wood case like this would 
not support a flame if sealed with aluminum foil, which does EMF/EMI.
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