PCB Development: TwinSlot Riser Project for TAM, 6360, 5x00 PowerMacs . . .

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Trash80toG4

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. . . and the mythical no more: Slot C for Alchemy!

Cleaned up baseline research, reference condensed from posts in multiple threads on three different forums over the past 5 or 6 years.
Thanks to all who've helped out in the seemingly interminable research phase. At long last development phase begins!🙂

TriSlot-ABC-800.jpg


Will be updating as I refine a few other illustrations.

To do:
- noodle out the capacitor setup for the stock 6x00 riser. Slot B
- finalize dimensions: Edgecard connector to Slot A thruholes

@Trekintosh will be stepping in to do schematic capture & PCB development in KiCAD for Marchintosh project, many thanks, Trek!
 

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Trash80toG4

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Update on results of research phase:

PCI Slot_A Report.jpg


PCI Slot_B Report.jpg


PCI Slot_C Report.jpg


Just for shiggles and gits . . .

PCI Slot_E Report.jpg


. . . couldn't resist bodging ComSlot->full PCI conversion on cable based single slot riser Test Rig for A/B/C.

CommSlotII - to PCI Conversion Lashup.jpg


Didn't test this lashup for full function. Borked something on the test riser at some point. Adding rudimentary provision for testing Slot_E on prototype TriSlot card should be trivial.
 
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