A few weeks ago I designed a right angle adapter PCB for the Floppy Emu. The idea was to make a little board that plugged into a standard Emu and converted it to right angle rear mounting, with the LCD and buttons facing outward, and the main board leaning against the back of the computer’s case. It’s possible to hack your Emu to do this, but I wanted a solution without needing to resolder or modify anything.
Unfortunately the geometry is wrong, and the adapter doesn’t fit. In order to plug into the computer’s floppy port, the DB-19 connector on the adapter board needs to extend about 1 cm behind the main Emu board. But as you can see in the photo, it doesn’t extend behind the main board at all. It’s not even close. So the main board just whacks into the Mac’s case and won’t let the adapter go any further.
I knew the geometry would be a problem even before I sent the adapter boards off to be made. I was hoping there would be enough flex or play in the connections that it would still fit, but no dice. Chalk this one up as a learning exercise!
