Re: Grid 1537 ”Tempest” schematics
Curt Vendel
curt at atarimuseum.com
Thu Aug 15 18:19:35 CDT 2019
Sure:
On 8/15/2019 12:22 AM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
> u got any pics of this thing?
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:49 PM Curt Vendel via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’m doing some work for a friend who has one of these unicorns
> it’s apparently a super beefed up CIA use the laptop that wound up
> in Russia somehow and he got it shipped back here to the US
>
> The motherboard was modified it looks like the hard drive was on
> some kind of a tray going to a connector which is IDE compatible
>
> Someone had extremely poorly soldered on an IDE cable in place of
> the sled and over the years several of the pans of popped off and
> they’re not really making sense as to the solder points they’re
> supposed to go to. Complicating the matter is the paint outs are
> not just a direct staggered 40 Pin to Pin connection several of
> the through holes are not in use so just soldering on I had her
> and plug in the cable into it is not possible also the pens are
> staggered so that wouldn’t make it possible either.
>
> So to cut to the chase does anyone have the schematics or the
> motherboard pinouts for this connector so that I can do a proper
> soldering job and put on a clean working cable so that this laptop
> can vote from the IDE hard drive?
>
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