[Coco] Gold Plating the Tin Card Edge Fingers of Old Coco Paks, MPIs, etc.

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 17 April 2013 04:48:20 Kip Koon did opine:

> Brian,
> I would be interested in a few of these boards.  I have two MPIs giving
> me trouble and a third one still in storage which I haven't found yet
> that might need one too.  I also have a few old Color Computer
> Controllers that work now, that also could use some gold contacts as
> well.  Thanks for making these known to us..
> Kip
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On Behalf Of Brian G
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 6:08 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Gold Plating the Tin Card Edge Fingers of Old Coco
> Paks, MPIs, etc.
> 
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> 
> >> What I did was find an old gold plated pc card with the same
> >> connector spacing, ISA seems to fit, sawed the card edge connector
> >> off, then laboriously verified there were no remaining shorts from
> >> any pad to any other pad, there were, and I wound up setting in on a
> >> grinding stone and
> 
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> 
> The Glenside Fest is going to offer the Glenside IDE boards very cheap.
> I have some non-functioning boards that the gold plated connector end
> could be soldered to card edges.
> A picture is attached as a PDF, this is the only way I could make it
> small enough.
> Also make them into a plug in prototype board. Be creative.

The attachment was stripped, Brian.

Cheers, Gene
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