[GreenKeys] The last of the Pasco 35 ASR photos .. for a while
Jim Haynes
jhhaynes at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 10 15:04:42 EDT 2015
That's a lot of boards, some of them very thinly populated. Looks like
for that product Teletype was still using the somewhat standard 36 pin
connector with the edge pins on .156" centers.
That started out as a card with 15 edge pins. Sometime in the early 1960s
they decided they needed a larger card, so they went to the 36 pin design
and had a card guide that could snap on to the middle of the connector to
allow it to hold two 15-pin cards or one 36-pin card. I was rather
distressed that in the mid 1960s they were still using the original
standards for line widths and component spacings, leading to very low
density of parts on the boards. I see that by the time of ICs in the 1970s
they had been forced to go to narrower lines and tighter spacings, but
were still using the same edge connectors.
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