1 Feb
2018
1 Feb
'18
9:04 p.m.
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, Ali wrote:
I have been toying with making a bunch of brackets for
odd connectors (I
haven't seen a bracket that has holes cut for DC37 for example readily
available for purchase). A friend of mine has access to an industrial laser
cutter and has told me he would be happy to cut brackets in quantity for
free....
Ah, yes.
Back in those days, people were throwing away "low density" (5150,5160)
disk controller boards.
When Doctor Marty reverse-engineered the Flagstaff Engineering mods to
5150 FDC for 8" SSSD, he was paying about $1 each for them.
But, for me, when XT (with 8 slots) replaced PC (with 5 slots), the
generic XT cases that I was using came with bags of slightly narrower
brackets for converting cards made for PC to the narrower bracket. And I
once paid a few dollars for a box of those bags of brackets at Foothill.
50 for ~$50
https://www.ebay.com/itm/162634914268
But, I had to call it "DB37" to find it. THAT is depressing.
I'm gonna have a shot of Tequila.
Much better now.
HERE IS WHAT WE NEED! :
HERE IS WHAT WE NEED! :
https://www.ebay.com/itm/282828648805
$78.81 + $9.85 S/H
Greenlee 234 37-pin d-subminiature chassis/panel punch
A few for $110 Buy-it-now with free shipping
It's quite a bit more expensive new, at Mouser, Amazon, etc.
If anybody here buys it, you gotta at least let Ali, me, and Chuck use it
a few times, . . .
This whole damn hobby is about lusting after stuff that we wanted 30+
years ago!
35 years ago, the last GOOD department chair of CS at the college agreed
with me, and we bought a DB25 Greenlee punch.