more rack ideas

[Steve Jones]

 -- Excerpt from David Halliday (Volt Computer)
> There's a number of "standards" used in industrial control systems -
> don't know that there was any standard for wiring but the card size (
> and the 22/44 card edge connector ) was pretty stable.  The card cages
> were cheap and a good size to work with.

And so I challenge; can 22 pins be sufficient for all
connections for all modules of a voice to the panel?
Obviously, this depends on the features of the modules,
but generally speaking, what do you people think?

> Hal Chaimberlain's book on Musical Applications of Microprocessors has
> the idea of putting a header on each card and using ribbon cable to
> daisy-chain them.  This is nice since you don't have to worry about
> making a backplane and you can loop from card to card even if the
> cards are not in a common rack.  He sugested Molex connectors ( Molex
> is a prominent manufacturer ) but ribbon cable may be better ( newer,
> cheaper, denser )  He drove the audio into current sinking inputs so

Hey, using mass produced PC technology saves money
and results in better availability.  This might better
lend itself to standardization.  Obviously, if I use the
aforementioned card cage, I'll be more or less on my own.
But, I already *have* the card cage so, standard or not,
I'm obligated by frugality to build at least one...

steve