Good point. Doesn't anyone know if enclosing a 486 in a sealed safe would cause it to overheat over a reasonable time? If not, it's possible to cut off power to the unit every so often to let it recover. On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Jim Crumley wrote: > Well, is this still a 486 we're talking about? If so you > might be able to get away with passive cooling if the > safe is big enough. Or better yet make a thermal connection > between the motherboard and and safe, and make the safe one > big heat sink. Of course, if you did it badly you might > have to worry about static discharges to the safe ;) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Houck thouck at thouck.com www.thouck.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org