so i want to connect my Atari 800 to my computer.

but it has this weird "peripheral" connector that i can't find anywhere. must be some fully custom thing.

3d printing to the rescue!

but what about the pin contacts? they are just Molex 08-50-0106 contacts. https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Molex/08-50-0106?qs=zi95yC3thwEn8WhcIJBXDA%3D%3D

they just go on with an ordinary crimp tool

all ready to be put into the housing. hope they fit!

oh, they fit perfectly!

i even made a nice little cover for it. both halves are identical.

oh look at that, it fits perfectly!

firing up AspeQt, which emulates Atari SIO disk drives.

ahh.

anyway, i'd upload the models to Thingiverse, but their signup flow/account management is garbage so i wasn't able to get it all ready in time for this tweet. sucks for them!

instead, you can find the files here at GitHub. https://github.com/schlae/atari-sio

oh yeah, i actually designed this model 3 years ago and just didn't get around to printing it until yesterday.