I remember seeing a how to on making a hidden cdrom. All you need is an old face plate, some rubbery super glue so the face plate can bend and flex some, and a small piece of plastic or wood, that gets glued to the face plate near the eject button. You glue the face plate to the cdrom tray using the flexy glue, so when you press on the right spot on the face plate your cdrom opens. Hope I gave you ideas -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Bill Layer Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 6:02 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: Analog RAM meter (was Re: [TCLUG] black case:CDROM) On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:10:18 -0500 (CDT) "Jamie Ostrowski" <jamie at getsetnet.net> wrote: One > of the major stumbling blocks of making my system look old is the cdrom > drive. The plastic tray that slides out just wont have the same effect > hence my search for a cdrom that loads without the tray. A couple of ideas on this... 1) General Nano (or was it Tran?) offers a slot-loading DVD rom drive for about $100 or so last time I checked. Very up-to-date, and covers the slot-load aspect. 2) What prevents us from attaching a larger (metal?) plate to the front of a conventional CD-ROM drawer, adding some faux hardware, a name plaque, and making it a stylistic element of the machine? If we used a conventional mounting technique, the plate could be large enough to cover the *entire* front of the CD-ROM drive... Made from thin aluminium, the weight will be negligable. The buttons to open / play the CD are just switches, they can be covered or removed, and their connections broken out to some momentary toggles or rocker switches on the front panel. I even have a good friend with a Bridgeport mill, who could probably machine a replacement drawer front cover (have you ever noticed that those covers can be removed? It's necessary to the design of the tray & front panel to have them removable...) Heh.. heh heh... heh heh heh... :) Bill _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list