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From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C64 RS232 interface
Keywords: RS232,interface,homebrew
Message-ID: <3758@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 16 Jun 88 15:45:03 GMT
References: <3187@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY
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In article <3187@s.cc.purdue.edu>, aic@s.cc.purdue.edu (George A. Basar) writes:
> 
>   Also, does anyone have a source for the 24 pin card edge connectors
> Commodore was so kind to use.  I`ve been using the 44 pin card edge conns. 
> from RS but it gets tiresome cutting them in ~1/2.
> 

I had given up on finding them (although I had heard of mail order
places that had 'em), but visited a local electronics supply store, and
lo and behold!  Cost me about $3.25, and I'm going to use it to make a
user port extender (I couldn't find any edge cards with only 24
contacts, though, so I still have to hack up a printed circuit board).

I had always thought I should look for the connectors in computer
stores, so I thought you couldn't get them.

I've cut some of the 44-pin connectors in "half", also, but a) it's
hard to properly insert the connector without bending over the computer
to line up the contacts, and b) one side of the connector ends up being
exposed, and I'm always worried about short circuits.

Anyway, try looking in the yellow pages under electronic supplies to
find a dealer in your area.
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