Re: PET 2001 320081 manufacturing fault / layout failure ?

From: William Levak <wlevak_at_SDF.ORG>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:46:41 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1912201943450.5535_at_sdf.lonestar.org>
The earliest PETs had the active contacts on the bottom side.
The tape drive had compatible contacts.
On the machine that had this, I drilled small holes throught the
contacts and soldered small wires top and bottom.



On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, smf wrote:

> On 19/12/2019 18:12, vossi wrote:
>> I take a look at the tape connectors and cannot believe what I see:
>> The contacts misses the via's !!!
>> So the signals are only on the backside of the pcb!
>> But all tape drives from Commodore have the contacts in the connector only
>> on the upside!!!
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> AFAIK they sold different tape drives for those.
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