I put one INSIDE my CPC 464. The later version has a really tiny PCB with a double row of solder islands, so it is easy to cut a 50 pins SCSI flat cable in half, fold it 90°, and solder it to the islands. Now you can connect the Ulifac II to the 50pin connector on that cable I added some wires to the reset switch and made a small 3D printed button cap and holder that is non-destructive in the rear grill, so you can press reset on the back. Downside is that the USB stick is inside the machine, but for museum/visitor use this is only a benefit, as the machine looks 100% original, yet it becomes both a CPC 464 and 6128, and you can offer a vast amount of disk images.
Nice presentation, kudos.
I put one INSIDE my CPC 464. The later version has a really tiny PCB with a double row of solder islands, so it is easy to cut a 50 pins SCSI flat cable in half, fold it 90°, and solder it to the islands. Now you can connect the Ulifac II to the 50pin connector on that cable I added some wires to the reset switch and made a small 3D printed button cap and holder that is non-destructive in the rear grill, so you can press reset on the back. Downside is that the USB stick is inside the machine, but for museum/visitor use this is only a benefit, as the machine looks 100% original, yet it becomes both a CPC 464 and 6128, and you can offer a vast amount of disk images.
That's pretty cool! I'm not really game to solder that many connections yet, I nearly killed my CPC just replacing a couple of RAM chips yesterday!
@@australiancomputermuseum But that involves removing. This is just soldering to empty solder islands.