Olin Lathrop wrote :

> There were some requests a few months ago for Eurocard size.  
> Since the size I was contemplating was close, I figured there
> was nothing to  loose making it exactly that size.

And if it hadn't been so close in size, I doupt that
those requests ever had been put forward.

>  I also wanted two rows of .1" pads for putting
> various 1x or 2x .1" connectors on the board, so making it 
> mechanically fit a Eurocard type B was also no big deal.

I'm willing to bet on that a true Eurocard type B connector
never wil be mounted on one of those cards. Probably a few
shorter say 2x10 header blocks (or smaller) depending on what's
going to be connected.

> I thought about putting all the external connectors on the
> left edge, but that just didn't work out....
> ...I thought that would hurt sales more than 
> the Eurocard thing would help it.

Probably true, yes.

The Eurocard building format was popular at the time
when you had one "CPU board", one "EPROM board",
one "RAM board", one "ADC board", one "I/O board"
and so on. That just isn't the case any more...

Just IMHO,
Jan-Erik.



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