[Coco] Flexible rompak cable

[N8WQ]

Hi Roger,
That is certainly an idea about desoldering the expansion port connector 
and mounting it flush with the motherboard. Darn, I wish I still had 
access to the mini wave soldering station I used to operate at work. Oh 
well, I will have to get out the elbow grease!

Alan Jones

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Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 01:22 PM 3/29/2009, you wrote:
>> I want to either build or buy a short flexible cable that will allow 
>> me to connect my floppy controller to my CoCo rom cartridge port. I 
>> am building a new CoCo mini tower and I need to conserve as much 
>> space as possible. Basically I want to mount the floppy controller 
>> either spaced over the motherboard or just long enough to even twist 
>> one turn so I can have more mounting options. At this point in time I 
>> don't care about a multipack interface I just want my floppy 
>> controller to work. Thanks...
>>
>> Alan Jones
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>
> In my first repack (named the CoCoTower), I desoldered the expansion 
> port connector and mounted it upright.  You'll have to do some pin 
> clipping and such but it''ll pay off in the end.  If you had an MPI 
> board, it would connect at a 90-degree angle where the cartridges face 
> inwards to the imaginary box area.  Very nice results.
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