1 Dec
2003
1 Dec
'03
8:28 p.m.
Now... what
you can do is to make a *double-sided* board and design it
to be universal. You'll just be using 50% of its potential.
I think I may have something like this...though it was originally done for
Posibus. The DF32 emulator I bought from Charles Morris uses edge cards built by a board shop, and 40-pin (I think)
ribbon cables to connect
to the 8L's (bought that, too) Posibus. Shoudn't be too hard to lay out
the
boards starting from there, anyway. At 11*2=22
boards/device, you are
even
talking quantities that make sense to send out to a
board fabricator.
Checked the schematics, and what they show is a set of universal paddles
leading to a little board with all the cross-connects in it. A lot of the
cross-connects look suspiciously like M904/W011 wiring :-). The paddles
also have space for a second 40-pin connector (which is not actually
installed on my DF32 emulator paddles), so you could daisy-chain them if you
wanted to.
Vince