{"id":620,"date":"2018-03-14T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/?p=620"},"modified":"2018-03-17T12:23:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T17:23:35","slug":"amiga-uplift-1-1-hc508-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2018\/03\/14\/amiga-uplift-1-1-hc508-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Amiga Uplift 1.1 &#8211; HC508 Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update- I found a great case on Ebay from <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&#038;item=173208346551&#038;view=all&#038;tid=1829440176007\">finchball<\/a>. The original creators of the HC508 don&#8217;t yet have one available so I purchased this one. It fits perfectly and makes the HC508 look much nicer on the side of the A500.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/001_a500_hc508.png?resize=512%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"001 a500 hc508\" title=\"001_a500_hc508.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The construction is good, with 4 screws on the bottom holding the two halves together. There is good solid tight fit for the CF card so it doesn&#8217;t feel loose while inserted. There is even a small slot on the top half of the case to observe the disk activity led. You do however need to look directly down to see the LEDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update- I found a great case on Ebay from finchball. The original creators of the HC508 don&#8217;t yet have one available so I purchased this one. It fits perfectly and makes the HC508 look much nicer on the side of the A500. The construction is good, with 4 screws on the bottom holding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,91,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amiga","category-cpu","category-ebay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PE01-a0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":661,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2018\/03\/17\/amiga-uplift-part-2-the-extra-amiga\/","url_meta":{"origin":620,"position":0},"title":"Amiga Uplift Part 2: The Extra Amiga","author":"dillera","date":"March 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It turns out the best thing you can buy to help restoring an Amiga 500 is a second one for parts. 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