[Coco] CoCo cartridge PCB thickness
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Sep 7 09:50:35 EDT 2007
On Friday 07 September 2007, Robert Gault wrote:
>Roger Taylor wrote:
>> Does anyone know the exact thickness of a standard CoCo cartridge board?
>
>They may not all be the same.
>
>The Speech Sound Cart board is .067 inches except for the connection
>area that inserts into the Coco. That seems to be ground or just
>slightly smaller at about .065 inches. Perhaps the difference is caused
>by the paint layers.
I'm reasonably sure that was 1/16", or 0.0625", plus whatever the copper
thickness may have been. Back in those days, most copper was fairly robust,
1 mill or more. Now you can almost see through it.
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