Simon_Bitdiddle
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I've been puttering around with my Powermac 7100/66 and while they're a steadfast beast, it's a bit on the slow side.
After finding a couple of PDS-mounted processor upgrades on eBay, I've kinda noticed that you can find the processor upgrade cards but never the chassis and flat flex cabling for connecting a PDS video card.
I found myself wondering about whether anyone's tried reverse engineering the flat flex cables and built a 3d printed chassis.
Also, I put out a request to both Sonnet and Newer Technology if they have a BOM/Schematic we could use to do something like get PCBWays to print them. I know the connectors are probably rare but just having the hard bits done might help things along.
Am I tilting at windmills? A giant caveat is that I'm no electrical scientician.
Also, anyone out there have any of these upgrades that would be willing to provide dimensions/photos?
After finding a couple of PDS-mounted processor upgrades on eBay, I've kinda noticed that you can find the processor upgrade cards but never the chassis and flat flex cabling for connecting a PDS video card.
I found myself wondering about whether anyone's tried reverse engineering the flat flex cables and built a 3d printed chassis.
Also, I put out a request to both Sonnet and Newer Technology if they have a BOM/Schematic we could use to do something like get PCBWays to print them. I know the connectors are probably rare but just having the hard bits done might help things along.
Am I tilting at windmills? A giant caveat is that I'm no electrical scientician.
Also, anyone out there have any of these upgrades that would be willing to provide dimensions/photos?