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Re: VECTOR: Asteroids hack


From: Tom McClintock ( )
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 21:12:56 CDT


Gregg:

You will have to ask Callan about that. Callan? It plugs into his PAT9000... :)

In the spirit of finding neat vector things in the periphery of pictures, here
is a link to many vector games and related items. See what you can spot!

http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/callan/callan.html

tm

Gregg Woodcock wrote:

> I am more intrigued by your interesting connector contraption pictured in
> this hack than by anything else. It would appear to me to be a female edge
> .156 PCB edge connector of wire wrap type pushed into a header pin female
> connector. This is quite clever to me as it allows for VERY quick
> reconfiguration just by popping out the pins and rearranging them. Plus it
> makes the edge connector piece (the piece that gets old and worn out and
> have poor connectivity) easily replaced. Tell us more about this design...
>
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