Appeal No. 1998-0714 Application No. 08/092,622 the cabinet. Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows: 1. A general purpose computer apparatus comprising: a central processing unit; a main memory; a system bus; first means for interfacing said central processing unit to said system bus; second means, coupled to said system bus, for interfacing said central processing unit to an I/O bus; and a housing enclosing said central processing unit, said main memory, said system bus and said first and second means for interfacing, said housing having a size and shape so that the housing can be physically mounted in a disk drive slot of a computer system. The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Blackborow et al. (Blackborow) 5,253,129 Oct. 12, 1993 (filed Nov. 12, 1991) Kobayashi 5,463,742 Oct. 31, 1995 (filed Mar. 05, 1993) Claims 1 through 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Kobayashi in view of Blackborow. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007