there aint no room buddy--- 1/8 of a inch at the most. between the card and it touching something (in the front)
Nope, not in front or back, how wide a card could sit
beside the RCPII/IIsi in your SE/30 installation? IOW, can you lay the LC NIC card down
next to the Pivot card without it hitting the PSU or anything else? How much room is there to spare on the front, back, underneath (looked like zero in your pic) above and to the right side of the LC NIC? Much rides on that information.
Yeah i could see taking a super mac card, and a grinder to the euro din , making it proper size for the LC-NIC to connect.
Not it at all, you take the four walls surrounding the LC Card EuroDin connector's pins off so that you can solder the exposed LC Card pins directly into thru holes for an LC Slot connector on the adapter PCB. These will remain unpopulated to keep the assembly as thin as possible and get around the need to buy any EuroDin connectors.
19 lines well that is almost 40 spots to solder… that sounds feasible/reasonable . . .
. . . as long as there is a easy to follow diagram that shows what wire go to where.. and i would assume we would be murdering the (traces we're patching) on the PCB.
No trace patching at all involved, those jumper wires get soldered into thru holes designed into the Adapter PCB on one end and to the solder cones of the appropriate pins of the PDS connectors on either side of the SuperMac card. [
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So once someone makes a prototype supermac card… trys it…. at that point we will know wether or not to proceed…i think this is something i can handle…
Nope, once someone works out the control line translation,
then we make a PCB free prototype by soldering a bit less than 100 jumper wire connections and wire wrapping the other ends right onto the NIC's EuroDin connector pins. Annoying, but near zero cost and
muuuuuuch faster than laying out the entire PCB. No need to route the 64 address and data lines at all . . . or the control lines for that matter! [
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If techknight is working on the Radius IIsi video card SE/30 Grey scale mod… then yes… I would say that does take priority for sure.
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