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The only reason I can think of for removing that connector would be upgrading a TAM for greater expansion card compatibility via 6400 infusion. Daydreaming there would be installing TEMPOtrio in the PCI slot for much faster, kosher ATA interface to SSD on top of its USB/FireWire baseline TAM...

Yep, that's the type to be avoided due to its slip-out SD card feature. Mentioned reasons for avoidance upthread. ;)

Shutdown would be what I was figuring on. Was up for a bit earlier and couldn't resist checking in (Covid Coughing fit) so sleep mode SD removal was silly notion as was the thumb drive complicattion. KISS principle adherence tends to be slack when I'm half asleep. < tangent > Vertical mount...

I was thinking updates via vertical USB port in the end cap over cable from computer, not storage. Maybe data transfer to SD from thumb drive, but that's redundant given removable SD card access. USB speed wasn't a limitation for my notions thought it irrelevant. SD card removal would require...

Nice day job, hoping to play with 3D modeling in about 22 months when I retire. Had a notion for scanning contour gauge settings made in steps using my cross slide milling vise. So of course that led to thoughts of a digital version. just searched and found this...

Yeah, your custom hat is a great suggestion, but the BlueBird Module moniker wouldn't fit, LOL! I'd considered RaSCSI, but with AAUI on board my thinking was that adaptation from that starting point would be considerably faster? The Blackbird's expansion bay is located in front the chassis...

Wasn't talking about or critical of your connector choice at all, slip-in is just fine for standard use. (y) Pucker factor for an SD card sticking out the side of a Blackbird is something else entirely! I have a slip-in socket on my current Notebook with a goodly portion of the card poking out...

The module will need to be stationary, installed before reassembling the base unit which is held in place by strategically located nubbins. I cut the opening for the battery contacts only because the bend line of the mockup at that point was too deep in the well. Design should clear the battery...

I thought I'd hooked mine up to the BNC inputs of my 21" PrecisionColor workhorse from the day, but didn't see that mentioned in my MLA posts. I probably wouldn't have as that's the IIfx Display. Give it a try, if it's a very wide ranging multisync it might work?

@This Does Not Compute thanks for that link. I guess we'd need to add the nubbins I've indicated to hold the assembly in place. Development of the kissy-lipped cover plate should be fun for somebody? Dunno anything about BlueSCSI really, would adding a teensy USB port to the custom board so a...

Thanks, glad to hear I'm not totally off my rocker ATM. I've always thought about that, but bought one and don't much care for it. I've heard they're not all that reliable and the card only slips into it. My notion would be to use a real SD socket with push-to-click-ejection of the SD card so...

Came up with this one while not quite awake this morning and spent the rest of wakeup, morning musings over coffee thinking about it. So of course I spent my afternoon in paper/cardboard cutout mockup play. I've been told few can parse my .TXT descriptions, so was this a waste of time...

Interesting, didn't know Rev.C was the only one capable of supporting a Wifi card. The major difference I see between 1400/5x0 implementations would be the IR hardware. Assuming the T-REX ASIC to be identical, that ROM on the Blackbird modules looks like a system patch to me? Has anyone tried...

Glad to see someone jumped on this so I don't have to get involved. I have two full sets and a penchant for procrastination. The silly things are anything but ergonomic. They look great, but function is worse even than the PowerBook case equivalent. They're functionally useless, which is why I...

LOL! I've had my nose poking into just about anything interesting in hacks and peripherals over there. Those two forums were my turf as a mod back in the day. :) You may be right. Thinking about it, I don't see PCMCIA as much more than a novelty for the Blackbird at this point. SCSI/SD...

Aha, thank you! From Charadis' credit, it looks like I came up with the crazy notion the assemblies might be compatible in a previous lifetime. I said then that I didn't think an adaptation would be possible. But now I think it might be done, go figure. Connector limited project: I'll take a...

Thanks, should have figured out it was RAS from the way they run across the ICs as if P&G to the corners of the chips. Brain's only partially online lately, trying to shake off Wuhan Wooziness. Cool, at least some of my noggin's still up and running. ;)

@lilliputian it was just the title of your old thread that set me off this morning. Just read the thread and it seems the PCMCIA cage is rare enough to play with here?

Has anyone got really high resolution scans of the parts? Never seen 'em. I've been playing with a 1400 PCMCIA cage/daughtercard to Duo HDD bay transplant about as long as the MLA has been around. Just occurred to me that the TREX ASIC would either be on the Blackbird module or would be...

Forgot to ask about the two wires on the layout. Couldn't see if they lead to addressing for a single or multiple Ranks. At first glance I'd thought you were powering that bloody big bodge of ICs, very clever way to implement the jumper wiring. Will you be adding the matched header to your...