Port Expander cards.

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vicassembly
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Port Expander cards.

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I probably have 10+ expander cards in my collection and use the Golden expansion extender for every day use. I am including a couple of pictures of some that are either home-grown or have some other unknown origin. Ever seen anything like these?
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srowe
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Top one looks to be a Cardco Cardboard/6

http://www.ecrater.com/p/22201217/cardc ... ic-20-slot

Bottom one appears to be a Dataspan-50 as seen on Rick Melick's page

http://www.geocities.ws/cbm/
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Brilliant!! Thanks for those links.
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gotta love the routing on the second one... lovely
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What is that potentiometer thing for?
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It's a rotary switch, you use it to route /BLK5 to a specific slot.
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A curious thing indeed ..
Never seen one like that .
Still wouldnt trade my ARFON.
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