At least with the Molex connectors, the pins and mating barrels can be carefully extracted, cleaned, and tightened up a bit *if you are careful with them*.
EDIT – I was a video game tech in the mid-80s for about 5 years, it killed any desire to play them for a *long* time after. Now I enjoy firing up M.A.M.E. with a bunch of bootleg ROM images for grins…
Ex-arcade game tech here. All I can tell you is: beef up some of the connections and connectors for that linear supply Atari used, some of the connectors would get burned over time. Occasionally the fuse holder on the transformer chassis in the bottom of the cabinet, too.
This looks fun! I would love to do cool stuff like this.
I believe that would be a pre jamma harness.
Me: scrolling, scrolling, WAIT ATARI AR2 DETECTED
Cool
Let the centipedes make their own wiring harnesses! 🙂
Edge connectors are no fun.
At least with the Molex connectors, the pins and mating barrels can be carefully extracted, cleaned, and tightened up a bit *if you are careful with them*.
EDIT – I was a video game tech in the mid-80s for about 5 years, it killed any desire to play them for a *long* time after. Now I enjoy firing up M.A.M.E. with a bunch of bootleg ROM images for grins…
Ex-arcade game tech here. All I can tell you is: beef up some of the connections and connectors for that linear supply Atari used, some of the connectors would get burned over time. Occasionally the fuse holder on the transformer chassis in the bottom of the cabinet, too.