Subj : Re: limited to USB 1?
To   : TOM WALKER
From : CHARLES ANGELICH
Date : Fri Jan 07 2005 12:13 am

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Hello Tom - 

BR>>> Cards designed for risers usually come with extra/special
BR>>> slot covers with connections for external devices. Cables
BR>>> run from there to existing card connectors or better yet
BR>>> to existing pin headers on the board. [:^) 

->> Regardless what comes with the riser the back of my machine
->> only has slots horizontal to the bottom of the tower, not
->> vertical. 

TW> I have never seen a Riser Card from a Riser Card Computer
TW> that would work with a Standard MB or Case. Particualrly a
TW> card that required an opening appropratly placed in the
TW> back of the case. So either We are missing something or HE
TW> is "Full of IT" :-) 

I am not aware of an efficient method of using a riser card
within an IBM/Intel platform tower computer that was not
_designed_ to use a riser. 

OTOH I have seen, over the years, computers with the case off
that had daughterboards extended above the other circuitry to
allow aditional hardware and even individual computer chips
standing on very long 'legs' because they were not the original
equipment and were too large to fit into the socket provided.
The Radio Shack Color Computer had several methods of extending
it's 'slot' to allow addtional 'plugins' (one from Radio Shack)
and I _think_ there was a similar adaptor for the APPLE II at
one time? 

Personally I would utilize an additional computer if my needs
were such that one computer could not accomodate every need
that I had. :-) 

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