[Coco] really dumb cartridge question

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The higher number pins will be toward the front of the CoCo (keyboard side).

- Ed


> On Oct 26, 2016, at 4:38 PM, Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
> 
> So I have an old game cart here that my kids liked to play. Eventually the little circuit board inside broke free of its mounts and the play was over.  I opened it up today and saw that oh, I could probably just superglue the mounting posts and put it back together.  So I glued.
> 
> But I forgot to look before I removed the screws from the circuit board:  which way was it mounted in there, or more simply, which way is up?  All these game carts are is a little board with a round "bump" on one side that no doubt contains whatever ROM gizmo is required.  The 37/38 pins are marked on the board, but I don't know if these correspond to whatever numbering was used on coco side. So, imagine me putting this thing back in the cart and plugging it in:  my two options are:
> 
> a)  Mount the board with the "bump" on top of board facing top of cart case, meaning their labelled pins 37/38 would be toward the front of the coco
> 
> b)  Mount the board with the "bump" underneath, so facing the desk my coco is on, meaning their labelled pins 37/38 would be toward the back of the coco
> 
> Obviously option c) would have been look at the dumb thing before you take it apart.
> 
> Thanks
> -RobertH
> 
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