Re: Star Trek pinout wanted

On Jan 5, 7:06pm, Todd Miller wrote:
> Subject: Re: Star Trek pinout wanted
> Al Kossow wrote:
> >
> > there is a small PCB between the spinner and the CPU board too,
> > which is what I meant.
>
> Yep, ordered them w/ Sega multi game kit last month.
> Is that why there is an edge card conn on the front of the
> cage instead of a harness ??

The edge card conn in the card cage means you have a Star Trek Kit cage. I've
never had an entire kit, but one can theorize that the kit contained a 22 pin
generic wiring harness, and a finger board was inserted between the two
(instead of the kit containing a harness with about 6 miscellanous mate-n-lock
connectors like the real converta-cabinet has).

Star Trek was a popular Asteroids conversion. Replace the vector monitor and
insert a finger board and re-wire the control panel, and most of the existing
Asteroids harness could be re-used. However, the edge card conn you mention
doesn't have a pin out that matches any game (as far as I can tell), so a
mapping finger board was probably required for any or all Star Trek conversion
kits.

This is all just my theory, of course :-). Anyone ever had a complete Star
Trek conversion kit? I have the manual, but it never mentions any particular
conversion procedures.

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