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Re: Fitting of a 34 pin standard FDD socket to an Atari ST

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:40 am
by IngoQ
Yeah, I can relate to that ;)

Re: Fitting of a 34 pin standard FDD socket to an Atari ST

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:13 pm
by tfhh
Maeke wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:32 am 1)-the challenge.
2)-having the fdd socket for free.
3)-Destroying an already dead pc motherboard.
Ok, nice & comitted :lol:

Jurgen

Re: Fitting of a 34 pin standard FDD socket to an Atari ST

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:40 pm
by exxos
Thinking about it , I have a stack of those connectors *somewhere* . Its one of the items I got to fit on the STF remake motherboard 8-)

Re: Fitting of a 34 pin standard FDD socket to an Atari ST

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:45 pm
by rubber_jonnie
tfhh wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:58 am
That´s one of the first things I ever do in any Atari ST/STE with floppy inside :)

Just for the records... why are you re-use the one from the PC mainboard? These connectors are easily to find normally. Or I didn´t see the goal...

Jurgen
Hey Jurgen.

There were a few reasons I did it this way.

1) The dead mainboard meant I had a socket going begging when I needed one :D
2) The challenge to improve my STE and my soldering skills at the same time
3) Recycling. Its the way forward :lol:

Normally, I would have just bought a socket, but it was there, on the dead mainboard. Taunting me!!

:D

Re: Fitting of a 34 pin standard FDD socket to an Atari ST

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:46 pm
by rubber_jonnie
exxos wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:40 pm Thinking about it , I have a stack of those connectors *somewhere* . Its one of the items I got to fit on the STF remake motherboard 8-)
Yeah, please make sure you fit one!!

Re: Fitting of a 34 pin standard FDD socket to an Atari ST

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:47 pm
by exxos
rubber_jonnie wrote: Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:46 pm
exxos wrote: Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:40 pm Thinking about it , I have a stack of those connectors *somewhere* . Its one of the items I got to fit on the STF remake motherboard 8-)
Yeah, please make sure you fit one!!
Yes, it is added on the first revision :)