At 11:43 11/26/97, Clay Cowgill wrote:
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>So you just plug it into the cardedge of a board and use little
>alligator-clip jumpers to connect your voltages, controls, and signals
>where needed. It's not exactly an "innovation" or anything, I just think
>it'd be a much nicer (for me anyway) way of testing "unknown" boards.
>
>Actually... Now that I think about it... I could put a couple of headers
>in the middle of the board and allow for little "personality" modules to be
>plugged in. (So you could have half a dozen "common" adapters-- Nintendo
>Donkey Kong Type, Konami type, Capcom 56 pin, etc. for quick tests that
>would hook up the video, controls, and power automatically...)
Clay, I'd take 2 or 3 of these. BTW, they make these at my local "good"
hole-in-the-wall electronic store for RS232, SCSI and PC port connectors.
I believe the generic term is "breakout box"
