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| 5367.1 | | PEEVAX::GIFFORD | Mowing the weed's at Mum's. | Thu Jan 23 1992 17:43 | 8 |
| From experience in building a non-functioning cheaphd (Must look at it one day),
I think you will have to have one made up.
In OZ we found a mob who make bits and pieces and they made ours.
Look in yellow pages for electronic supply houses and start there!
Stan.
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| 5367.2 | Now don't call ME cheap! | KAOFS::J_DESROSIERS | Lets procrastinate....tomorrow | Fri Jan 24 1992 12:25 | 5 |
| Or get a connector with more than 86 pins and cut off the unneeded
"end". It's tricky to insert but once in works quite well.
Jean
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| 5367.3 | How 'bout a USA source? | DWOMV2::CAMPBELL | Delaware Amigan | Sun Jan 26 1992 01:58 | 16 |
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Don't know if this will help, but...
86-pin edge card connector Digi-Key part # C5-43
Digi-Key
Brooks Ave. South
P. O. Box 677
Thief River Falls, MN 56701-0677
(800)344-4539
It's not UK, but only one I've seen. From AC Tech/Amiga, Vol 2, No. 1
(SCSI interface project)
Dennis
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| 5367.4 | A source. | WELCLU::EDWARDS | | Tue Jan 28 1992 08:20 | 42 |
| Hi Patrick,
Doing the same thing myself (slowly).
R.S. Components show a couple of items which I think should be
suitable depending on how connect to the Amiga (Cheaphd sots or via
a ribbon cable.)
From the catalogue:-
type # of ways stock # price (ea)
Solder tags
double sided 43 467-021 L7-05 ex VAT
Wire wrapping tags
double sided 43 467-059 L7-05 ex VAT
Problem:-
R.S. Components will only sell to the trade so unless you can
sweet-talk logistics or order it through your local component shop
there is a problem.
A possible solution but a route that I have not tried is that
as I understand it R.S. does have a mail retail outlet called:-
Electromail,
PO Box33,
Corby,
Northants.
NN17 9EL
For more information a "General Inquiry" no for R.S. is
0536 201234
Hope this is of some help.
Paul
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| 5367.5 | Is it worth the solder? | BAHTAT::HILTON | How's it going royal ugly dudes? | Tue Jan 28 1992 11:47 | 5 |
| Not wanting to rain on your parade, but as the COM 201 is only 49
pounds is the CHeap HD worthwhile?
Greg
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| 5367.6 | Not 500Plus compatible ! | PEKING::NONDEP | Il est des fois que je souhaite.... | Wed Jan 29 1992 04:20 | 5 |
| Creg,
Yes it is worth it as the COM201 as today does not work with a PLus !
Cheers anyway, Patrick
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| 5367.7 | Are you sure it will work.. | BAHTAT::HILTON | How's it going royal ugly dudes? | Wed Jan 29 1992 04:37 | 3 |
| Ahh!
BUT has ANYONE tried CHEAPHD on a 500 Plus!
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| 5367.8 | Maybe maybe not | PEKING::NONDEP | Il est des fois que je souhaite.... | Wed Jan 29 1992 08:38 | 5 |
| No I haven't but from what I guess... the papers only mentioned a
change in the circuit in the trap slot not the edge connector side
.....
Any lights, Patrick
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| 5367.9 | Could try the Edgware Rd, London. | SUBURB::MCDONALDA | Smoke me a kipper... | Wed Jan 29 1992 09:25 | 17 |
| Try Maplin. You can pick up their catalogue in any W.H. Smiths. They
have a couple of shops around. The nearest one to me is on the Oxford
Road in Reading.
Couple of years ago they had a cable making service, dunno if its still
in operation.
I got them to make me a couple of cables for a couple of ST-506 drives
I have. One, was half height, so installed in the Amiga, the other was
full height, so installed in its own external box. Maplin made me two
cables to my specifications i.e. 1.2 meters long, edge connector at
either end, PLUS an edge connector 0.2 meters from one end; the cable
had three edge connectors. I think the cost for a 20 way cable and a 36
(?) way cable, with polarising keys, came to 11.50 pounds sterling. And
they have worked perfectly.
Angus
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| 5367.10 | Maplins no good. | WELCLU::EDWARDS | | Fri Jan 31 1992 04:57 | 17 |
| Re -.1
Angus,
Sorry, but the Maplin catalogue shows no connector large enough
even to mbodge a job. Maplins is my usual source.
Patrick,
What do you intend to do for the PSU? The disks themselves seem
to take a hefty current at +12v. Does it need to be fully regulated
or do you think a simple rectifier + capacitor filter will do?
If anybody else has built CheepHD what did you do?
Paul
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| 5367.11 | 200W PSU dream of Com201 for the Plus ! | PEKING::NONDEP | Il est des fois que je souhaite.... | Fri Jan 31 1992 08:21 | 12 |
| Paul
I bought as part of the project an external 200W PSU more then required
from what i read later on and I'm yet to have tried it as the friend is
hesitating in the last wiring one cable on pin 1 or 86...
Patrick
still_in_the_dark_and_almost_regretting_to_have_a_500P_as_I_got_
the_Com201_for_my_sister_and_yes_it_looks_very_neat.
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| 5367.12 | Well one less to go ! | PEKING::NONDEP | Il est des fois que je souhaite.... | Fri Jan 31 1992 11:14 | 14 |
| Hi,
I've found a way to do it.
Called ACE in Cornwall on 0503 220282 and they place a special-up to 8
days delivery- order with Commodore U.K. and they ship you the edge
connector that comes with the A590.
All this for the mega price of �15.00 first class postage quite a lot
but then I'll have one.
The other option now would be to phone commodore and order from
them strait....
Cheers, Patrick
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