In the days when Reliability, Availability and Serviceability were IBM mandated design goals, someone suggested the slogan "Up your RAS".
Ed
mountable power ports
Mar 26, 2025
Last reply: 1 year ago
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I have a book IBM's Early Computers by Bashe et al.
They started with card tabulators and took forever to accept binary. Their early computers were BCD monsters.
I once, in my youth, designed an ADC and interfaced it to a 1401, at the Tulane Primate Research Center. It was literally a monkey project.
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Yeth.
panel mount binding posts are a thing, you probably want to reinforce the tin they mount through (use large washers or solder some extra steel to the back).
Those are sockets for banana plugs, the ones pictured accept shouded banana plugs which is handy if accidental electrical contact with the banana plug would be a problem
This is what I'd call a binding post.
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The left end is a thumb screw to clamps bare wire through the hole, but it can also take fork terminals and often banana plugs through a sockets (that's not shown at the left end)
option C is run a cable out through a grommet and use a lever splice.
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