Publication: Syntax
Pub Details: Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v1 n2 (Volume 1, Issue 2)
Date: December 1980
Pages: 3
At SYNTAX we use a Radio Shack connector. Their solderless edge-card, 40-pin connector (#276-1558) usually picks up all the contacts we need. We also use 40-conductor, insulation displacement, ribbon cable and mount the connector with a metal-jawed vise. We open the connector ends with a small burr in a hobby grinder. (Put a piece of circuit board between the contacts to prevent damage while cutting end slots.) We terminate the cable with an experimenter board so we can simply plug into the contact strips with wire jumpers to the prototype board.