20 Sep
2006
20 Sep
'06
9:18 a.m.
At 10:23 AM -0500 9/20/06, Jim Brain wrote:
Cool! I've been wanting to try it since I heard about it.
It is a SDLT II Tape case (no real difference to a TK50 or DLT case),
the tapes hold 600GB per tape. We have the empty boxes coming out
our ears at work, though most do get reused, and they seem to work
really well as a small project box. Simply used "zip-strip" cable
ties to fasten the circuit board to the case with 4 holes in the
bottom of the box. While I don't like how the User Port connector
hangs out, I'm rather pleased with the rest of the construction.
Zane
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Zane H. Healy wrote:
>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
Nice, you should head over to petscii.com and give Jeff
Ledger the
schamtic for this, so he can post it on his site.
It's just the MAX233 design on that site with a reset button added,
so I rather doubt it rates a schematic of its own :^) I also built
the 7404 interface also shown on the site, to refresh my skills
before building this one, but I think that my C64 is a bit to far
from the PC for it to work.
Of course I
finally get it so I can get my Commodore 64 online only
to find out that Quantum Link Reloaded is down at the moment :^(
I know, I'm
trying to get it started back up. I should have it
going today. Stand by. PS the real
question is who can identify what I built it into :^)
Looks like some sort of
3.5" disk case, but it's no doubt more
esoteric than that.