8/S Replica

[Henk Gooijen]

regarding switches, have a look at my "homebrew pdp8/e" on my
website (www.pdp-11.nl) in the "my projects" folder.
Btw, Vince had a hand in this project too!  :-)
I don't think you can go for smaller switches, unless you have
really tiny fingers ... The width of the paddles of these switches
is approx 8 mm. Smaller would be too difficult to use.
- Henk



> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:33:21 -0800
> From: jwstephens at msm.umr.edu
> To: 
> Subject: Re: 8/S Replica
> 
> Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
> > From: "David Griffith":
> >> Whatever happened to that idea of building mini-flipchips with
> >> surface-mount parts?
> >
> I'd be interested in a system that used the CF connectors to be the 
> edge card connectors. they should be cheap, and would hit the form 
> factor well. Both sexes are available so you could integrate the 
> backplane with the connectors prewired on a big pc board, and make gobs 
> of the little flip chips to plug in.
> 
> I'd be interested in a tiny front panel with SMT LED's but don't know 
> what you'd get for the front panel switches.
> 
> Jim