Atari XE GS

The pinout for the connector is: Looking at the connector (female) on the computer: 7 6 3 1 5 4 2 Sorry I am not practiced at making 'round' ascii... This is the pin sequence. 1. +5vdc 2. Shield 3. GRND (earth) 4. +5vdc 5. GRND 6. +5vdc 7. GRND Ignore the shields, wire the grounds to a ground wire on a clone power supply and wire the 5 volt from the clone supply to the three 5volt inputs. The computer may or may not power on but if not it is easily fixable. A lot of clone supplies require a fair load before they will actually power on and deliver any significant current - the 130xe alone, even mine with 576k and three os roms does not pull enough. The solution is then to run your hard disks on the clone supply you are trying to power the computer from. This is very convenient! I have been running my XL/XE machines on clone supplies for so many years the supplies are rusty and look ugly. Another cool thing is that the power requirements of a killer Atari 8-bit machine are generally very low compared to the potential output of a clone switching power supply. This means you can use supplies which have failed due to FAN Failure. In other words, just use the good supply with the bad fan. Demand is low so the heat dissipates by convection and there is no need for the fan. The above diagram came from the Atari 130xe's Owner's manual. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey S. Worley Technical Services Bits & Bytes Computer Services Inc. 1979B Hendersonville Road Asheville, NC 28803 828-684-8953 - voice 0900-1700 five days 828-687-9284 - 24hr fax Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? Technoid(a)Cheta.net -----------------------------------------------------------