The long pin female headers I have used are thin enough not to destroy leaf spring IC sockets. -Pasi On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 15:22, Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se> wrote: > My impression is that any other kind of pins except those on a real IC > or those on the cheap budget sockets will ruin the holes in a budget > socket, and then the user can't remove your adapter without installing > for example a machined socket between the CIA and the existing budget > socket. > > If you have enough energy/time and are willing to do some nasty work > you can solder your PCB on to a cheap socket. Would most likely result > in fumes from the plastic and would need large solder blobs or > something like soldering in pin headers in the holes in that cheap > socket. > > P.S. for the A2000, A3000 and A4000 you could put the switch on the > floppy cable instead of in the CIA socket. In theory this could be done > on A1000, A500, A600 and A1200 too, but that would require connections > both to the internal and the external cable. > > If the idea is to hook up a Gotek and an internal drive to an A500, 600 > or 1200 you could connect the adapter on the data cable (and power > cable) to the drive, and just use one of those spring loaded hook > clamps for the pin on the CIA that selects DF1. It will collide with > any external drive, but it would work without soldering even if the CIA > is soldered direct to the motherboard (were any Amigas shopped that > way?). The Gotek would need to be of some kind which can have it's user > interface passed through the vent holes on the top of the case, or > using the removable cover on the back if it's an A1200. > > -- > (\_/) Copy the bunny to your mails to help > (O.o) him achieve world domination. > (> <) Come join the dark side. > /_|_\ We have cookies. > >Received on 2020-05-29 23:02:18
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