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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: A590 -> A1000
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Date: 18 Sep 89 19:08:31 GMT
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In article <45b7353f.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> (Bob Hruska) writes:
>Would there be a problem with hacking up something like a gender changer
>to have the box sit upright at least?  Of course it will still be facing
>the wrong way...

IT DOES SIT UPRIGHT! Sorry to shout there but a lot of people don't seem
to realize that the edge connector *wasn't* "flipped" on the A500 it was
just "rotated". Take an A1000 and turn it around so that you are looking
at the back of it, now it's edge connector is exactly like the A500 
connector. You do *not* have to turn the A1000 over. 

The only problem with the 590 is fitting the "finger" that connects to the
edge connector into the A1000 "hole", and of course the 590 is then upright
but backwards. It looks just like it would if you had it on an A500 and
were looking at the two of them from the back. Now a gender changer to 
make it sit forward would be an interesting trick.

--Chuck McManis
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