Well, I finally finished the MAX233 based User Port Serial interface
(it was basically finished Sunday). In case anyone is curious, here
are a couple pictures.
http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/MAX233-1.jpg
http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/MAX233-2.jpg
Well done!. One comment, I would seriously recomend putting some kind of
strain-relief on the wires at the edge connector. What I normally do is
screw a couple of tapped spacers to the connector feed, then screw a bit
of small angle brass (L cross section) to the other side of those, and
then fit cable clips to that as appropriate. Otherwise you will go mad
continually resoldering thr wires. Don't ask how I found that out :-)
PS the real question is who can identify what I built
it into :^)
My first guess was some kind of tape cartidge box (the translucent
plastic and the way it opens gave it away). I see others have correctly
said it was a TK50-like box. Well, I viewed the pictures in an local
internet cafe, and the box looks rectuangular (as opposed to square).
Either something is distorting the picture (does it look square to anyone
else?) or you've hit the well known perspective problem that affects
everyone who takes close-ups without a technical camera.
-tony