Re: Help with SX64 User Port?

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:36:49 +0200
Message-Id: <3CF7B9D9-1CCD-4A1A-9514-CABE2C34F18C@wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2017-06-28, at 15:51, smf <smf@null.net> wrote:
> 
> On 28/06/2017 14:13, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:
>> The reason to discard the IEEE bus was the fact that the cables were too expensive so they designed the IEC bus.
> 
> I believe it was the connector on the motherboard that was the main problem.

Doubt that. They could have used whatever cheaper connector instead of the I3E and in some models/revisions they did...

> You could charge a fortune for a drive cable if someone wanted a drive, but you wouldn't want to lumber all the tape users with that cost.
> 
> They should have just used the user port.

.. use an edge connector as USER PORT.

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