Those same 44pin jacks connect to the Atari 800. You have to pull a lot
of shielding off the machine to do that, but under the hood, the Atari 800
(not XL) has the same card edge.
I've never seen it used for anything ever. Maybe they used it for testing
at the factory....
Regards,
Jeff
In <005501c0c1d7$206cbb20$9cc762d8_at_idcomm.com>, on 04/10/01
at 06:23 PM, "Richard Erlacher" <edick_at_idcomm.com> said:
>Having made and sold a combination backplane/extender board for a bus
>based on this connector (2 x 22 _at_ 0.157" pitch) , I still have a few of
>the things lying about, hence haven't had to look for them in the stores.
>Nevertheless, I do see them from time to time at various surplus outlets.
>Here in the Denver-Boulder-Longmont area, the surplus outlets are down to
>just a couple, namely Gateway electronics and J. B. Saunders Electonics,
>and, at last check, both had a few of them in stock. I doubt you will
>have trouble finding them wherever you are.
>Dick
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ross Archer" <dogbert_at_mindless.com>
>To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 5:59 PM
>Subject: Where to find 44pin edge cards/ 6502 d/l freeware
>> Used to be, you could go to Radio Shock and purchase one of those
>> solder-yourself 44-pin edgecards that mate with the KIM-4 expansion
>> board. I'm thinking one way around my dead keyboard issue which
>> also solves my desire for expansion would be to add a CPLD
>> decoder, 32K SRAM, 32K ROM (with holes around the 6530s
>> and remapping new patched monitor into $1800-$1FFF), and 6551
>> UART/MAX232 combo to input code and d/l intel hex. (The cassette
>> interface on poor KIM is dead, too.)
>>
>> By the way, if anyone's interested, I have a generic 6502 Intel Hex
>> program downloader program that allows you to assemble and directly
>> download programs from the development PC into your SBC.
>> It's freeware so have at it if anyone finds it useful.
>>
>> It's at:
>> http://www.6502.org/source/monitors/intelhex/intelhex.htm
>>
>>
>>
>>
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