On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 at 17:36:56, Derek Stewart wrote:
(ref: <001301c1b190$5f5b23e0$2da4193e@network>)
>I have a Mplane and it is a very good piece of hardware. Perfect for my
>Supergold card and Aurora in a MiniQL case...
MinisQL I thought.
That is what it was originally designed for of course.
It is though well suited for both QL motherboards and Aurora in an AT
case.
There was a lovely heart stopping moment when I got the production
boards and we did the first fit in a case. This was at Roy's with Keith
Mitchell. It was only then I realised that the mockup board had
'components' on the wrong side.
Amazingly though the production board worked fine - just needing some
changes to the holes in the MinisQL case.
Even better, with the board this way round, Supergold card fitted
perfectly on it with the QL motherboard - it would not have worked the
other way round.
>From then on I mark my boards 'solder side' and 'component side' on the
boards where relevant. My PCB package does not impose this at all
unfortunately - it calls them 'top' and 'bottom' as they assume
(rightly) that components can go both sides (eg RomDisq)
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