Anyone remember Kel-Am connectors?

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Thu Aug 26 19:03:29 CDT 2021


>> https://www.elliottelectronicsupply.com/connectors/card-edge/male-card-edge-idc-connector-34-position-kel-am-idc34m.html

On Fri, 27 Aug 2021, Doug Jackson wrote:
> We can synthesise those with a Female edge connector and a nice Gold Plated
> set of long fingers.
> I agree - those connectors were beautiful and very useful in the days of
> barely adequately buffered signals slapped onto a tin plated PCB edge
> connector.

There was another variant, or maybe it was the same one with the IDC pins 
smushed, that was sold in a kit to slide onto the tin card edge connectors 
of the Expansion Interface, or whatever else, and solder on to have a gold 
surface where you slid the cable connector on and off.



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