Date   : Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:30:46 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: making replica acorn cards

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 07:47 -0500, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Same as on the System boards - the DIN-type ones with 2x32 rows of pins. I 
> think my cases will each take 2x16w backplanes (or 1x16w + 1x10w with PSU), 
> which makes a good basis for a microcoded TTL CPU :-)

They're not all that ruinously expensive even from "normal" channels.
For example:

http://www.rapidonline.com/sku/Cables-Connectors/Connectors-Multipole/DIN41612-Connectors/DIN41612-Connectors-Apfel/63677/19-0122

So you'd be looking at about ?35 to buy enough connectors for 2x16 way
backplanes, probably not a bank-breaking sum.  Or RS would sell you a
64-way Vero backplane for ?58 and you could cut it into four :-)

p.