20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
9:48 p.m.
On 2/20/2012 2:41 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I needed such a able about 190years ago, and I
couldn't; find oen
anywhere (I suspect they do turn up on E-bay). I ended up making an
adaptor with a 12*2 0.156" pitch edge connector at one and and a 24 pin
microribbon connector at the other. It was only a couple of inches long,
so normal ribbon cable worked fine. In fact the hardest part was making
the jckposts for the microribbon connector, the right ones seem to be
unobtainable over here, so I had to machnin them myself.
Might I borrow a variant
of that design? I have 12/24 edge connectors
here, and I have proper Centronics 24 pin IEEE connectors. I was
thinking a little PCB with the edge connector on one side and the IEEE
socket on the other.
At least the Commodore cable is just a cable. The disk
interface 'cable'
that I'm sort-of looking for is the one from an HP9830 to an HP11305
controller. I have the 2 units, but the cable has a significant amount of
electronics (20 ICs or so) at each end.... Unfortunately, due I susepct
in aprt of an idiot who's been writing articles extolling the virtues of
the HP9800s andexplaining how to fix broken ones, the price of such
machines has skyrocketed recently, the point where I know I'll not be
able to afford them. If I ever meet that idiot....
:-)