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Spinning tangent off into its own thread: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/mythical-slot-c-in-the-6400-alchemy-architecture-csii-insanity.3692/

@Androda got me entangled back into the web of CSII/PCI insanity with his amazing CSII 10/100 card project, so spinning off the tangent. Genesis of the Quest for the 3rd PCI Slot in the 6400 Alchemy architecture over at the MLA some six years ago: "In another thread, @trag mentioned that his...

Sorry @Androda methinks my nose is stuck too far into your topic with this CSII<->PCI tangent. Looks like @trag and I were playing around with this stuff six years ago over at the MLA. I'll start a new topic over here. luckily the pics and diagrams are intact as they predate the catastrophe...

Sweet, now I know what to do with my current obsession: Instead of making the PCB a CSII TAM Riser, I'll figure out how to do a RA PCI adaptation so the card hangs off the board opposite the PCI slot(s) for testing purposes. I'll play with it to see if things will fit into the 10cm SEEED...

I was hoping the same thing in the back when, but IIRC I ran into some snag or other in mapping the signals. So never got around to it after putting it on the back shelf. I'll check the files, been starting to sort them out anyway. edit: just wondered if a PCI adapter might enable the use of a...

Way more function than the Apple Keypad I think. Phil Beasley's pic on the linked website above shows the connection from Apple KBD to MacCharlie surround. http://archive.retro.co.za/mirrors/68000/www.vintagemacworld.com/charlie/keyboard.jpg Is the "rewired phone cord" Mac KBD a serial ASCII...

I've got a two channel ATA-133 setup on my TEMPOtrio and would like to set up striped RAID 0 on a pair of DiskOnModules. If SoftRAID won't work with ATA-133 are there other avenues of approach? It's too bad Sonnet didn't set the card up for hardware RAID? 😕 edit: what level of SATA is...

Not crazy about that over busy lookin' front bezel. The case you found is a very slick. simple design with all controls and blinkiness inline along that prismatic trough. Bottom position of the badge plate is far more elegant. But I will grant you the cool factor of side panel inlet venting...

That's my favorite (stock) PC Case ever! Thrift store find, it's one of only three I haven't brutalized. 😬

Has anyone got info on doing a 24pin ATX power cable conversion for the Alchemy/Gazelle machines? I'd imagine that reworking the cable lines would be the minimum required. Soft power would be nice, but not necessarily required?

Not the only one, but could be one of only two? I've got both the platinum ADB and beigy phone plug versions of the datadesk MAC-101. Really curious to see an in depth look at the MacCharlie board. It was a surround for Apple's KBD...

Check out the great work @360alaska did over in the MLA thread: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/3d-printed-objects.4483/post-335383 @360alaska how about extrapolating a full 950 front bezel to fit an ATX case of some sort/size as I've described?

Very nice! Almost two(?) decades ago I played with going the other way, a CSII Slot edge card to PCI Slot Riser test setup. Wanted to see if any PCI cards might be hoodwinked into running off CSII. Got one of those on the way as well? :D

Cool, cannot imagine it wouldn't be simple enough to implement "slots" above and below the traces along with slight notches at top and bottom. Using a hacksaw would make for a clean, straight cut. I "hacked" many a prototype board some thirty-five years ago (half a lifetime! :oops: ) along...

Wondering if my snappable board suggestion might have merit?

ISTR a printable model for the CD bezel of the 950 is available. Extrapolating from that should give you a great start. You need only elongate the model at top and bottom implementing the returns for those panels and adding detail. The FDD "stripe" should be simple. Such would simplify your...

Looks like cable connection? Keyed PCB connector?

Now thinking that using the split off connector section would be optional. A proper panel mount connector could be hooked up the the same headers on the shortened main board?

Aha! Glad to hear that. Didn't know about magnetic components, such would explain the ginormous, boxy form factor of the panel mount connectors I've seen. Saw one terminating in a header connector somewhere. That'd be handy. Wondering if making provision for snapping your PCB into two parts to...

Nice, thought it had to be a lot more than that, but i guess the chip was intended to be routed simply to the PCIe edgecard. ??? Now I'm confused. Wasn't clear at all in my post, I do them in the AM over coffee most of the time.:oops: Thinking further about using your card in the TAM, it might...