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Caters for the inserting and removal of new hardware
devices such as hard drives, CD-ROMs etc. into a working PC.
- Three sizes proposed. Two for use in both PC's and Laptops and one for desktop PC's
only.
- DB13, DB20 and DB32 (height in mm) (A typical 5.25" drive bay is 43mm high).
- Will use either or both of USB or Firewire (IEEE 1394) connectors
- Will enable manufactures to build PC's that can be customised by a retailer.
Possible suitable devices include;
- Readible and writable CD and DVD drives
- Smart card readers
- Satellite TV decoders
- High speed digital modems and network cards
- Hard drives
- High capacity removable drives (Jaz, SuperDisk, Magneto-optical, Zip)
- Audio devices such as decoders and effects processors (dolby Digital or Pro-Logic)
 (1998,Aug)
The device bay - hot-plugging it
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