making a cart slot out of floppy cable

Dr.Weasel · Post by **Dr.Weasel** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:20 pm

Just like the topic, i was wondering if anybody has made a cart slot of of old floppy cables?... i started to cut the side of one but i messed up the pins so i was wondering if anybody out there has made one of these and how did they do it?. what did you use to cut the sides out?
-Hayden

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:32 pm

I tried it, but there was plastic going inbetween from one side to the other, so when I tried to cut that off with a knife the whole thing just cracked and was trashed. I really wonder how ben got it to work...
If you can't get this to work for you, just get a Family Converter from gannon and chop it off with a dremel tool.

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:56 am

G-force wrote:I tried it, but there was plastic going inbetween from one side to the other, so when I tried to cut that off with a knife the whole thing just cracked and was trashed. I really wonder how ben got it to work...
If you can't get this to work for you, just get a Family Converter from gannon and chop it off with a dremel tool.

I had a simmilair experience

Post by **bicostp** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:20 am

What about using ISA slots off of old motherboards? Would the pins match up with any carts?

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These can mostly be found on old AT motherboards, but I've seen several ATX motherboards with at least one. I counted the pins on the larger portion; there are 60. I guess you could add on the other part of the slot to make at least 80, or cut out the middle plastic part that keeps people from putting cards in backwards (who on earth would put an expansion card in backwards?!) and align the cart to have the middle pins in the gap...

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:26 pm

I tried it. The pitch is slightly off on ISA cards. Also, some early IDE controllers had no ports that went outside the computer, or even the metal plate. The ICS direction was the only way to make it work.

That and some people are just stupid.

arfink · Post by **arfink** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:14 pm

Well, I used a dremel tool with one of those cutting wheels to trim off the end and I VERY carefully slid the wheel between the pins to chop off that bar that goes in between. I then manually filed off the rest of the fin by just holding one of the dremel bits in my hand and scraping the rest off.