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CPC Expansion Backplane

revaldinho edited this page Jul 1, 2018 · 26 revisions

CPC Expansion Backplane

This project is an expansion backplane for the Amstrad CPC computers, providing 3 Mother MX4 compatible box connectors.

Each connector is provided with a jumper to select whether power will be taken from the CPC's +5V output or an external PSU plugged into a three pin header on the expansion board.

The backplane needs a ribbon cable to connect to either the edge connector of a CPC 464/664/6128 or the Centronics connector found on the 6128 and 464 plus machines.

Building the CPC Expansion Card

The PCB is available directly from me - pm me via the CPC Wiki Forum - or directly from SeeedStudio via the Seeed Gallery. Alternatively all Eagle .brd files and zipped archives of Gerbers are available in this repository's Eagle Releases Directory directory for you to have PCBs made wherever you choose.

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