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>I think you would have a really hard time getting enough contact pressure to make a reasonably good contact while still being able to slide the board in without tearing up the contacts. I've seen boards with card edges on two sides somewhere, but they plugged into a backplane and then had a smaller bridge board that plugged on the other side and retained the boards.
> I'm not doing top and bottom connectors and I'm not doing hot swappable.
> All the fingers are on the top, because the microcontroller is on the top.
> Power management is on the bottom of the card to make it smaller. Power
> input is on the bottom but not lined up with the data pins.
>
> I was simplying wondering if there was a connector that you can slide the
> card into lengthwise. I know I saw something similar to what I'm looking
> for when I was an ET on subs in the US Navy. That's where I got the idea
> from. I just can't find it or remember what I saw it on.