Is there an official name/model for the cartridge port of the Colecovision/Adam?

[8bitwidgets.com]

Hi everyone, I was just wondering if the cartridge female cartridge port of the Coleco/Adam is something that exists today or was it some custom pin configuration custom to the Coleco or perhaps something that was once standard, but is long extinct today? 

 

Thanks,
Caleb

[+nanochess]

It is an Amphenol (now Amp) 30-pin dual connector .1" spaced.

 

I bought a pair in January of this year for my Colecovision on a breadboard.

 

5530841-2-ND
CONN EDGE DUAL FMALE 30POS 0.100

 

I just checked in Digikey and it isn't currently in stock (I should have bought the 14 they had). Probably it is available somewhere else.

 

 

 

[8bitwidgets.com]

awesome and what about the pin-out of a cartridge?  is that something that has to be made by a PCB company or can a board with those pins be found somehow?   I'm thinking it would take a PCB maker to produce a board that could interface into that port.

 

[+nanochess]

5 hours ago, Caleb Garner said:

awesome and what about the pin-out of a cartridge?  is that something that has to be made by a PCB company or can a board with those pins be found somehow?   I'm thinking it would take a PCB maker to produce a board that could interface into that port.

 

It is pretty special, so yes, you need to make a PCB, or order one from @5-11under for a cartridge and check if you can adapt it to your purposes.

[8bitwidgets.com]

3 minutes ago, nanochess said:

cartridge and check if you can adapt it to your purposes.

cool i'll look into that..  i think i see the road ahead and it looks doable..  but yea would likely require a custom pcb to do what i need in the space i'd need it done.  

[+mytek]

Yes Digi-Key is out of stock until the middle of next month but OCTOPART shows a bunch at Mouser and a few at Newark, Avnet, and Online Components

 

TE Connectivity P/N: 5530841-2 (Mouser P/N: 571-5530841-2)

Price: $4.72 each

Description: Connector Card Edge Socket 30 Position 2.54mm Solder Straight Thru-Hole

 

This is a former AMP part which got absorbed into TE Connectivity.

[8bitwidgets.com]

very cool, so I imagine that ports like this are still out there for various consoles? 

 

I'm not in a major rush for them at this point, but i was looking to get a couple for prototyping in the near future.  

 

2600 and Intellivision for example.  2600 seems a bit custom, but the intellivision one looks pretty straight forward.