Emerson's Moog.

[Paul Maddox]

Phil,

>
>I would suggest the HDI connector used for wide SCSI drives.
>It is compact, has lots of pins (64, I think) and has low
>insertion/extraction force.  DIN-41612 connectors would also
>be good.  The insertion force is low.  Extraction force is
>high but in return you get a gas tight connection.  Both
>types of connectors are keyed so you can't possibly invert
>the connector.
>

These are nice connectors, however, soldering them to 0.1" spaced vero/pcb 
could be a laugh!

>Another possibility might be to use a ZIF socket. You can
>buy headers that plug into these sockets (40 pin dual inline,
>for example) and allow you to interconnect any two pins using
>wire or a resistor.  You could even pot the result.  As an
>alternative, you could build a programmer that would have
>a pigtail cable going to a board with traditional patch
>points and potentiometers.  This could be used to refine a
>patch before committing it to the hard-wired version.
>

trouble is I think 40 pins may not be enough..

>See, it does help to have a few of us "digital weenies"
>around.  We're quite used to dealing with massive numbers
>of interconnects. :-)
>

digital weenie? hehehehe, cool...

Paul


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