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by farkanoid 702 days ago
This somehow reminded me of the "Access A1200"; A complete and upgraded Amiga 1200 clone that fit in a 5.25" floppy drive bay [1]

I remember the Amiga community absolutely frothing over it a couple of decades ago (myself included). It makes me sad that I can't find any info about it anymore, except for the Soft3 page advertising used versions on the Internet Archive.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030421150743/http://www.soft3....

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There was the Ross SPARCPlug[1] that was a whole Sun SPARCStation 20 clone the size of a 5.25" hard drive. Now you can have your Unix workstation and Windows machine in one box![2]

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/components/rossTechnology/Ross_SPAR... [2] It was a way better idea than reality, mostly because M-bus CPUs ran really, really hot so the whole thing was kinda flaky and loud.

SPARCPlug is such a great name for it too!
Fascinating, I’d not heard of this. I did find a bit more info [1]. Seems it was used as a kiosk multimedia playback system.

[1] https://amiga.resource.cx/mod/access.html

It's too bad that the PCB designs and other design specs aren't available for this, and for many other no-longer-produced electronic things as well.