I have been searching for this kind of mini tower for years so I was very happy to find one for sale last Sunday. It is a classic Baby AT tower from 1993, personally I think it’s a beautiful tower, very compact and enough space for hardware. When the ATX standard appeared small towers like these where banned from the market for years until small form factor PC’s became popular, the future for PC seems to be notebooks but I still think these Baby AT towers are just the right size for any computer.

I have been obsessed with finding out if you can mount an Amiga 1200 with a Zorro 2 bus board inside a Baby AT tower for years. The A1200 motherboard will not fit without modification, such as removing the mouse port and making some kind of extension for the turbo board. I should know since the first tower hack I did to an Amiga was back in 1998 when I mounted my first Amiga 1200 inside my 486 Baby AT chassis. That hack was not so sophisticated though, I had a Blizzard 1230IV turbo inside it and an A1200 motherboard with turbo board is almost 45 centimeters long. I had to cut a slot open at the back of the chassis for the turbo board to stick out. Not good looking so I gave the chassis away to a friend (who probably still runs his A1200 inside it).

Anyway back in 1998 Zorro 2 bus boards where still kind of expensive, too expensive for a poor student to buy just to find out it would not fit a small tower. I happen to own a MicroniK Zorro 2 bus board today and I can confirm that yes an A1200 motherboard and Zorro 2 bus board will fit inside the tower, however you would need to come up with some kind of extension leads between them and I have not figured out what to do with the turbo board yet. And when you think about it you do not really need Zorro 2 anymore. Graphics card is mounted to the BlizzardPPC card, network card is mounted to the PCMCIA slot and sound card can be mounted on the clock port. But still, Zorro 2 is cool to have.

So I have not decided yet what to do but I am going to start by attaching an Amiga 1200 motherboard inside the tower and trying to come up with an extension lead between turbo board and A1200 so the accelerator can be mounted over the motherboard.

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