Atari ST connectors (was: Atari SIO bus connectors found)

[Tony Duell]

> 
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Tony Duell wrote:
> > drilling a hole down the middle
> 
> a left handed drillbit is significantly better than a conventional one,
> since it will be tending towards loosening, not tightening.

Reminds me of the first time I took a 5.25" full-height floppy apart. I 
tried to undo the screw in the centre of the direct-drive motor's rotor, 
it wouldn't move, and in the end the head twisted off. I took the rest of 
the driv apart, and then started to drill out the remains of that screw. 
It came out as I was drilling. You guessed it, it was a LH thread, that's 
why I'd twided the head off. I _think_ I just re-tapped the hole for a 
slightly larger RH screw and put the thing hack together. It's still 
working. Now, of course, I know to check for that before shearing the 
head off the screw.

-tony