21 Feb
2012
21 Feb
'12
8:38 p.m.
On 2/20/2012 2:41 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Sure.
I don;t think I can lay any claim to a 'design' which is electrically
identical to the Commodore cable and which simply consists of matchign up
signal names on the 2 conenctors. So feel free to make it on a PCB, sell
it commerically (I won't care, maybe whoever nowe owns the rights to
Commodore stuff will), etc.
If you decide to sell them, I do urge you to make it abaialbe as a bare
PCB or kit. Solderign that up is very easy, and if the purchaser does it
themselves, they can use whatever solder they like....
Another way to make such an adapter cable is to cut a normal HPIB cable
in half and to wire the cut endes ot edge connectors. You then have 2
Commoodre disk unit cables.
-tony
I needed such a cable about 10 years 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 machine 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.