deramp5113
Veteran Member
I'm laying out a small PCB to adapt the pinout of the DIP-16 socket used on the OP-80A paper tape reader to the DIP-14 socket used on the Solid State Music IO4 board. This allows connection of the OP-80A to an SSM-IO4 with straight-through ribbon cables (e.g., DIP-16 header to DIP-16 header --> adapter board --> DIP-14 header to DIP-14 header).
The boards are so cheap from China that I can easily get 20 made for the same price as 5, and I doubt I could even give away 19 of these boards for the SSM-IO4 configuration, so I was thinking I might as well add another socket or IDC header onto the board for other common parallel boards people may be using with their OP-80A. Or maybe a patch area and a 24 pin header (2 x 12) that would allow straight through ribbon cables to be used for most any socket from DIP-14 to DIP-24 or even DB-25.
Thoughts?
Mike
The boards are so cheap from China that I can easily get 20 made for the same price as 5, and I doubt I could even give away 19 of these boards for the SSM-IO4 configuration, so I was thinking I might as well add another socket or IDC header onto the board for other common parallel boards people may be using with their OP-80A. Or maybe a patch area and a 24 pin header (2 x 12) that would allow straight through ribbon cables to be used for most any socket from DIP-14 to DIP-24 or even DB-25.
Thoughts?
Mike