Totally agree with you. Eurocard is not as popular as
before. I work for Peppel+Fuchs and this company is 
producing lots of DIN-rail mount (K-system, RPI and 
IS-RPI, etc) sensor interface cards for process automation
market. We used to have quite some Euro-card (E-system)
but now other than maintenance, I do not see any new 
design. DIN rail mounting is still popular though.

If anyone is interested, you can have a look at the 
website (http://www.pepperl-fuchs.com) or the USA 
homepage.

Xiaofan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan-Erik Soderholm [mailto:jan-erik.soderholm@telia.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 6:52 PM
To: piclist@mit.edu
Subject: RE: [PIC] PIC prototype board comments. Eurocard and DIN
connectors.

...

Now back to Olins design...
IMHO, I can't see any larger demand for a Eurocard-style
connector for this kind of board. Maybe a few smaller
"pin-headers" (like on Wouters Dwarf boards). It could even
be simple "unshrouded headers", like the once you use
to create jumper sections. Then you can use a cable with
a socket that is larger then the pin header since it can
stick out on one (or both) sides. This is a prototype
board so you're expected to grab whatever you
happen to have i the junk-box, right ?

Anyway, just IMHO... :-)

Jan-Erik.

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