Building an Amiga 1200 tower, part 1: mounting motherboard and BlizzardPPC
I have been trying to sell this Amiga 1200 tower case for over a year without luck so in a desperate final attempt I am going to stuff it with a MicroniK Z2 busboard, a Phase 5 BlizzardPPC and some other goodies to try and sell as a complete A1200T system.
For this to succeed I need a PC-keyboard adapter, so if any of my loyal readers happen to have a PC-keyboard adapter for an A1200 they want to sell just contact me and we can work out a deal.
Anyway, today I managed to fit an A1200 motherboard inside the tower case and the connected the BlizzardPPC card and tried to boot which was a success. Kickstart 3.0 boot screen showed up.
Next step is to install Workbench 3.0 on a IDE harddrive and connect the harddrive to an old IDE-fix, I did not have a 2.5” IDE female to female cable though so I could not go any further.
These 2.5” IDE cables (female to female) are becoming quite a bit rare to find locally it seems, and if you do find one it is either to short but always too expensive.
Thanks to the wonders of Hong Kong, Paypal and eBay, one 15 cm 2.5” female to female IDE cable is on its way to Vintage Amiga Hardware blog underground bunker in Stockholm Sweden, for the cheap sum of only 3.5 euro!
See you in part 2 
Gift Top Tower system for Amiga 1200, this is a custom tower for A1200 made in Poland. A very nice Amiga tower case IMHO.
