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DaveStall

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Replacement Williams widget board connectors?
« on: September 04, 2008, 10:00:23 am »
Does anyone know of a good source for replacement connectors for the old (Robotron, Defender, etc.) widget boards?  The connector in question is the white connector that interfaces the controls to the machine (joysticks, coin-up, etc.).  It appears to me that there are actually two 10-pin connectors side by side, but I can't find the original specs on the connector.

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Re: Replacement Williams widget board connectors?
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2008, 01:08:21 pm »
Have you checked Bob Roberts?
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Re: Replacement Williams widget board connectors?
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2008, 01:22:47 pm »
Why does everybody call these widget boards ? Williams calls them interface board so I wonder how it got that other name ?
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Re: Replacement Williams widget board connectors?
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2008, 04:02:00 pm »
Quote from: Level42 on September 04, 2008, 01:22:47 pm
Why does everybody call these widget boards ? Williams calls them interface board so I wonder how it got that other name ?

It must be those hip young arcade restorers and their jive talk slang.
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Re: Replacement Williams widget board connectors?
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2008, 04:54:55 pm »
Molex KK .156 Connector, part number 26-60-4100.  You can get them through  Mouser/Digikey/Jameco.  Mouser part number is 538-26-60-4100.  The middle two digits of the last four numbers represents the number of positions... -4100 is 10 -4090 is 9, -4080 is 8... and so on.

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Re: Replacement Williams widget board connectors?
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2008, 04:56:58 pm »
Quote from: RetroACTIVE on September 04, 2008, 04:54:55 pm
Molex KK .156 Connector, part number 26-60-4100.  You can get them through  Mouser/Digikey/Jameco.  Mouser part number is 538-26-60-4100.  The middle two digits of the last four numbers represents the number of positions... -4100 is 10 -4090 is 9, -4080 is 8... and so on.

 :cheers:

Thank you very much!

As far as the term "widget board" I'm not exactly sure where it came from.  For whatever reason, I have always seen it called that so I guess I just followed along!

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Re: Replacement Williams widget board connectors?
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2008, 04:59:13 pm »
Quote from: DaveStall on September 04, 2008, 04:56:58 pm
Thank you very much!

As far as the term "widget board" I'm not exactly sure where it came from.  For whatever reason, I have always seen it called that so I guess I just followed along!

Dave


I'm pretty sure the term widget board came from Clay Cowgill... he called it the "Widget I/O" in his Williams Multigame system
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