Apple ][ boards (mostly

[Tony Duell]

> 
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, jim stephens wrote:
> 
> > The card I have has a 12 or so pin ribbon cable actually fixed to
> > the board by a header, and it dangles thru the apple2 slot and is
> > clamped in place there by a metal bracket that pinches the cable
> > and the case to make a firm installation.
> 
> That's the Serial Interace.  But what do you mean by a "header"?  The
> cards I have and the photo in the manual show the cable soldered directly
> to the board and looped through two adjacent slots cut into the PCB.  The
> Communications Interface has only a 6-line ribbon cable.

Having seen both boards recently, I will confirm that all of mine are 
built as Sellam describes. There's a ribbon cable soldered direclty to 
the PCB, looped through a couple of slots as a strain relief, then a 
crimp-pin DB25 on the other end.

-tony