Zip to Simm Adaptor

[Retro_71]

Xamiche wrote:
Grrr. Guess who threw out all his old 386/486 motherboards a couple of weeks ago in a house clean up? :pissed:

It's true what they say. You don't need it, until you throw it out. I'm bidding on a 386 board on OZtion at the moment. It has 8 x 30-pin SIMM slots on it. That will do nicely.

Let me know how you go i have old motherboards that i keep to improve my solder skills, i'll check tomorrow at work. You after 30pin Simm; socket or simms or both?

[Xamiche]

I'm just after 2 x 30-pin SIMM sockets. No need for the SIMMs themselves. I still have more SIMMs here than I could ever use. :lol:

I'll see how this auction goes first though. It's finished in 2 days. I should be able to get the board for about $2 + postage.

[alexh]

I know you want to make your own... but they still make Zip-2-SIMM adapters.

[Zac67]

Actually - if you're up to the soldering job, all you need are the pinouts. You just electrically adapt them from one end to the other, that's all. If anything is unclear, I can translate that part from the guide, but doing it all would be 95% waste of time.

If you can spare the space, you should seriously consider using legs into the ZIP sockets instead of directly soldering to the card (yuck).

[Xamiche]

Zac67 wrote:
Actually - if you're up to the soldering job, all you need are the pinouts. You just electrically adapt them from one end to the other, that's all. If anything is unclear, I can translate that part from the guide, but doing it all would be 95% waste of time.

If you can spare the space, you should seriously consider using legs into the ZIP sockets instead of directly soldering to the card (yuck).

That's a good idea. I don't like idea of soldering directly to the card.

After reading through the google translated text I've figured pretty much what you've said. It's just a re-wire job. He has all the pin to pin descriptions in the text and google translate did a good enough job for me to figure out what he was doing.