COSMAC ELF switch panel
Rather than hand-wire the switches for a COSMAC Elf microcomputer (Popular Electronics, August 1976), I decided to make a printed circuit board for the switches, and a second to act as the bezel.
The bezel PCB has white soldermask with black silkscreen. The next revision will have black soldermask with white silkscreen, and the legend font, weight, and positioning changed to match the original Elf photo in Popular Electronics.
I need to order the remainder of the red and white toggle caps.
The 20-pin header should have been right angle; since I only had a vertical header on-hand, the ribbon cable had to be plugged in before the switches were soldered in place, and the switches are not flush with the PCB.
Traces to the LOAD switch were inadvertently reversed, so I had to cut two traces on the top of the switch PCB, and add two jumpers (not shown) to the bottom.
The bezel PCB has white soldermask with black silkscreen. The next revision will have black soldermask with white silkscreen, and the legend font, weight, and positioning changed to match the original Elf photo in Popular Electronics.
I need to order the remainder of the red and white toggle caps.
The 20-pin header should have been right angle; since I only had a vertical header on-hand, the ribbon cable had to be plugged in before the switches were soldered in place, and the switches are not flush with the PCB.
Traces to the LOAD switch were inadvertently reversed, so I had to cut two traces on the top of the switch PCB, and add two jumpers (not shown) to the bottom.
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