Whoa whoa whoa. No one said anything about poor design choices. All I said was that it's a challenge finding any way to get pcbs into some of these places where dips used to go, using the kinds of parts that are commonly available.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 1:09 PM Stephen Adolph <twospru...@gmail.com> wrote: > May not be obvious to everyone, but I designed the T200 Ram module for my > own purposes, with my own on-hand components, and subsequently released > it. Citing it as an example of poor design choices isn't fair as a > result. By all means, please put in the work to design build and test and > share an improved design. > > REX is plug and play. I think most people would prefer to plug into the > existing MOLEX...without a need to solder in a socket. > > > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* Brian White <bw.al...@gmail.com> >> *To:* m...@bitchin100.com >> *Sent:* Thursday, September 20, 2018 4:59 AM >> *Subject:* [M100] diy pins >> >> Holy cow cool... >> >> One of the significant challenges developing new devices to put into the >> old devices is simply the physical pins. >> >> Standard common pins, whether square or round, are usually too big to >> work (without damage) in most chip sockets, and in several instances there >> is not enough vertical space available to remove a normal dip andnput in a >> pcb with pin headers with shoulders. >> >> We resort to measures like: >> http://tandy.wiki/Model_200_RAM >> >> >>
