I have seen the same fix on at least one PET mainboard, but I don't remember for sure which board type it was. Most likely it was a board with 6540/6550. Christian Am 20.12.2019 um 20:46 schrieb William Levak: > > The earliest PETs had the active contacts on the bottom side. > The tape drive had compatible contacts. > On the machine that had this, I drilled small holes throught the > contacts and soldered small wires top and bottom. > > > > On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, smf wrote: > >> On 19/12/2019 18:12, vossi wrote: >>> I take a look at the tape connectors and cannot believe what I see: >>> The contacts misses the via's !!! >>> So the signals are only on the backside of the pcb! >>> But all tape drives from Commodore have the contacts in the connector >>> only >>> on the upside!!! >> >> AFAIK they sold different tape drives for those. >> >> >> >> > > wlevak_at_sdf.lonestar.org > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org > -- Christian Dirks Toast_r_at_Idealine.info Vorster Str. 66 47918 Tönsivorst 2. Stellv. Vorsitzender Verein zum Erhalt klassischer Computer e.V. http://www.classic-computing.de/
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