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pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« on: November 29, 2005, 02:41:06 PM »
Had a happy accident - tripped over my network cable and ripped the x-jack off my 3cxe589 pcmcia lan card.  Having done this (and having no dongle) I decided to take the case off to have a good look at the gubbins.

It was easy enough to bend the pcmcia connector round 90 degrees without the risk of anything shorting, the tricky bit was soldering 4 cables onto the small solder headers.

Next removed some excess plastic from the amiga motherboard, to expose the pins of the pcmcia connector and plug in the 3-com.  
I now have a lan card sticking out at 90 degrees to the motherboard.  A 4-core wire connects the innards of the pc-card to the output of a standard pci lan card, which sits nicely in the pci slot of a micronik zorro board.

Recycled the broken pcmcia card, nad no need for a costly right-angled adapter.  Plus frees up a slot in my mediator when I get it fixed.

All in all about 45 minutes work.

My £1.99 soldering iron died at the end of it though :-)

I'll post some pics when I can.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2015, 11:55:37 PM »
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It is a pity that Boot_WB not show the photos. Interestingly, many people also dissected his Amiga? :rofl:


Wow.

10 years...

Guess i never took the pictures.

It was the pcmcia card which, denuded of its case, could easily be bent to 90 degrees at the connector end.

Nothing on the Amiga needed altering, except removal of a little plastic from the pcmcia slot of the motherboard.

Back then those right angle adapters were about £30 iirc. If you didn't have one, you couldn't use the pcmcia in your towered Amiga.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2015, 11:59:49 PM »
@DutchinUSA

Tempted to buy one now just for the challenge ;)

Link to picture of card thingy

That plastic tab is the uber-fragile x-jack.

So ner, ner, ner-nerrrr ner :P
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2015, 12:40:15 AM »
Did the internet even have pictures back then? :D

Can't even edit the OP (theres just no edit button), must be archived or something.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2015, 12:47:40 PM »
That looks awesome, and is probably a bit tidier than mine.
Thanks for posting the pics - one less thing on my endless to-do list. :)
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