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pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« on: November 29, 2005, 02:41:06 PM »
Had a happy accident - tripped over my network cable and ripped the x-jack off my 3cxe589 pcmcia lan card.  Having done this (and having no dongle) I decided to take the case off to have a good look at the gubbins.

It was easy enough to bend the pcmcia connector round 90 degrees without the risk of anything shorting, the tricky bit was soldering 4 cables onto the small solder headers.

Next removed some excess plastic from the amiga motherboard, to expose the pins of the pcmcia connector and plug in the 3-com.  
I now have a lan card sticking out at 90 degrees to the motherboard.  A 4-core wire connects the innards of the pc-card to the output of a standard pci lan card, which sits nicely in the pci slot of a micronik zorro board.

Recycled the broken pcmcia card, nad no need for a costly right-angled adapter.  Plus frees up a slot in my mediator when I get it fixed.

All in all about 45 minutes work.

My £1.99 soldering iron died at the end of it though :-)

I'll post some pics when I can.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2015, 07:28:43 PM »
It is a pity that Boot_WB not show the photos. Interestingly, many people also dissected his Amiga? :rofl:
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2015, 08:54:14 PM »
I can't for the life of me figure out what you're saying here.  :confused:

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Offline danbeaver

Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2015, 09:02:15 PM »
Well, I suppose being in a case means no one has to look at it being bent like that.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2015, 09:18:11 PM »
Quote from: Oldsmobile_Mike;784915
I can't for the life of me figure out what you're saying here.  :confused:


I think he's don't let him near your computer because it'll probably end up broken.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2015, 09:26:01 PM »
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I think he's don't let him near your computer because it'll probably end up broken.

Ha!  I LOL'd.  :lol: :lol:
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Offline danbeaver

PCMCIA hard hack attack - no need for Photos unless you like autopsies.
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2015, 09:45:25 PM »
No, not broken right away, but badly bent at a 90 degree angle.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2015, 10:53:02 PM »
Still hoping he'll post some pictures eventually :lol:
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2015, 11:02:55 PM »
I want a cabled PCMCIA extender, so I can "bend" it 180° and keep a wireless card inside the original housing, or make a ethernet port on the backside of the machine.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2015, 11:42:42 PM »
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Still hoping he'll post some pictures eventually :lol:
I can picture it in my head, and it is not pretty; the movie Frankenstein comes to mind.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2015, 11:55:37 PM »
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It is a pity that Boot_WB not show the photos. Interestingly, many people also dissected his Amiga? :rofl:


Wow.

10 years...

Guess i never took the pictures.

It was the pcmcia card which, denuded of its case, could easily be bent to 90 degrees at the connector end.

Nothing on the Amiga needed altering, except removal of a little plastic from the pcmcia slot of the motherboard.

Back then those right angle adapters were about £30 iirc. If you didn't have one, you couldn't use the pcmcia in your towered Amiga.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2015, 11:59:49 PM »
@DutchinUSA

Tempted to buy one now just for the challenge ;)

Link to picture of card thingy

That plastic tab is the uber-fragile x-jack.

So ner, ner, ner-nerrrr ner :P
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2015, 12:21:16 AM »
Haha.  I just realized this thread was 10 years old!  :p
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2015, 12:40:15 AM »
Did the internet even have pictures back then? :D

Can't even edit the OP (theres just no edit button), must be archived or something.
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Re: pcmcia hard-hack - no need for right angled adapter in tower.
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2015, 01:39:38 AM »
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@DutchinUSA

Tempted to buy one now just for the challenge ;)

Link to picture of card thingy

That plastic tab is the uber-fragile x-jack.

So ner, ner, ner-nerrrr ner :P

You can just solder the Ethernet cable wires directly to what was left of the jack (to be super cheap)
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