--- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote: In general, a lot of proto boards seem to be hard to find cheaply. I typically buy Radio Shack's largest one with copper ringed holes (it's like 4 1/2 x 6 or something) and use that for most things. For edge connectors cheapy, there's a couple of things I've done. The easiest is to just find a junk PC ISA card with all the gold fingers present, and cut the bottom of the board off, leaving space on the edges and top. A dremel tool is your friend. File away any traces you don't want, and screw it to the proto board, and run wires to the fingers. Some ISA cards (AST RAM pack and I/O boards, IIRC) have all the fingers as well as a dual row of through plated holes, one hole for each finger. All you have to do is cut the bottom of the board off, clean the solder out of all the holes, and connect it to your proto board with a dual row header. Another thing that works, is the "fingers" from old Macintosh Performa all-in-one computers. They plugged into the back of the hard drive and CDROM drive, and had card edge finger connectors to plug into the wiring harness in the computer. Solder a dual row, right angle header onto your board, plug in one of these connectors (trimmed to fit) and glue it to the board. Not the highest quality fingers, but it works OK. -Ian

Sandy's Electronics here in Reno has a bunch $1.00 each, these are the vellman boards and some telecom boards. 20 slot backplanes to match too. www.sandyselectronicparts.com Randy _________________________________________________________________ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008

Randy Dawson wrote: Did anyone ever find the link to this? These boards would probably make VIC-20 expansion port work much easier. Jim