Re: Anyone remember Kel-Am connectors?

2021-08-26 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
https://www.elliottelectronicsupply.com/connectors/card-edge/male-card-edge-idc-connector-34-position-kel-am-idc34m.html On Fri, 27 Aug 2021, Doug Jackson wrote: We can synthesise those with a Female edge connector and a nice Gold Plated set of long fingers. I agree - those connectors were

Re: Anyone remember Kel-Am connectors?

2021-08-26 Thread Doug Jackson via cctalk
We can synthesise those with a Female edge connector and a nice Gold Plated set of long fingers. I agree - those connectors were beautiful and very useful in the days of barely adequately buffered signals slapped onto a tin plated PCB edge connector. Kindest regards, Doug Jackson em:

Re: Anyone remember Kel-Am connectors?

2021-08-26 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On 8/25/21 2:29 AM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: When I worked at Apparat around 1981, we used a lot of *male* IDC edge card connectors. I've almost never seen any since, and I couldn't remember the name of the vendor. I just found out that it was Kel-Am, but the internet knows almost nothing

Re: Anyone remember Kel-Am connectors?

2021-08-26 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 8/25/21 2:29 AM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: When I worked at Apparat around 1981, we used a lot of *male* IDC edge card connectors. I've almost never seen any since, and I couldn't remember the name of the vendor. I just found out that it was Kel-Am, but the internet knows almost nothing

Re: Anyone remember Kel-Am connectors?

2021-08-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 8/25/21 12:29 AM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: Speaking of which, it would also be nice to see some Robinson Nugent connector catalogs from the late 1970s and early 1980s. I am especially interested in seeing specs for their bottom-entry square-pin receptacles, which I think _might_ be the

Anyone remember Kel-Am connectors?

2021-08-25 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
When I worked at Apparat around 1981, we used a lot of *male* IDC edge card connectors. I've almost never seen any since, and I couldn't remember the name of the vendor. I just found out that it was Kel-Am, but the internet knows almost nothing about them. Here's an example: