8 Jul
2005
8 Jul
'05
10:58 p.m.
No cable for
the DSD setup eh? Hmmm, must still be in the garage....
It is a normal ribbon cable just as you suspect.
I bought a 26 conductor 10 foot
rainbow ribbon cable yesterday, along with a
few 2x13 IDC connectors. So, I'll just make my own connector. As I recall,
rainbow ribbon cables normally use brown for pin 1. I also bit the bullet and bought an IDC crimp tool, I've used a bench
vise in the past and it just
doesn't work well - too many broken connectors ;)
Odd... I've crimped dozens of connectors in the vice and had no problems.
If it's a connector with exposed pins, like those DIL transition headers,
I put the pins into a pluigblock type of 'breadboard' first. It's about
all seid breadboards are useful for...
As for
mounting the RL01, there is still an H-960 sitting here!
I think I also have a box of floppy disks for the DSD setup.
I have an H-960
spare. I was REALLY hoping to make the 11/45 a single bay
setup, but it doesn't seem that is really possible. I'll have to hunt up a
from what I've found. Then an RK05, but you could
put an RL there. On top
is the RK11-C controller at the front and its H720 PSU at
the back.
-tony