Atarian Computing wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:51 pm
I feed the voltages to the right DC-DC connector to get the -12v as well.
Today I realised that that the Lightning IDE/USB interface won't fit directly onto the CPU bus unless it is very nearly the bottom of the stack. Otherwise it runs into the keyboard. I'd forgotten that my CPU relocator folly not only moved the socket over to the right hand side, but also toward the back a bit, allowing the Lightning to fit into the space between the disk cage and the keyboard. But the problem with making the Lightning the bottom of the stack is that it runs into the old PSU header. So, thinking about what
@Atarian Computing said about -12V (I'd forgotten that's necessary for serial!), I decided to use the old PSU header for power, and pull off the old header and install some 90° headers...
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And since that made enough space to play with, here's a couple of photos for
@czietz...
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Cloudy has to go in first, or the Lightning crashes into the glue. The grey wire there is the ROM2 tap, which I suppose I won't need after all, since the Storm should remove that need.
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And there is the Lightning on top of the Cloudy. Unfortunately, the IDE port is a
tiny bit too high for the keyboard to go back in. According to the measurements I've written down, it's 1 mm too tall.
I'll remeasure, and if it's really that close, I'll probably just remove the shroud. But if it still too tall, I'll have to wire up the port off the board.
I picked up the Storm at the post office today, but haven't had a chance to unpack it yet, so photos of that will come later.
Edit: Yeah, I'm going to have to move that IDE port. My measurement of the keyboard clearance was a little bit wrong, and not in the direction that helps me.