Attempting to make the 1053 Emulator usable for SSM in time for their pickup of typewriter tomorrow

RESOLVING FLAWS RAPIDLY IS POSSIBLE

The issues I identified with the feedback signals should be resolved with some simple MOSFET switch board rework. The missing line feed is fixed already. The only behavior I still need to investigate is why the ANSI colors aren't working as expected. That seems likely to be easy to resolve too. 

DEALING WITH GENDER MISMATCH IS A CHALLENGE IN THE TIMEFRAME

The physical connection issue is what worries me. The 1053 printer comes with two SMS signal connections - one is a male paddle card and one is a female socket. My emulator however has two male SMS paddle cards. 

I can temporarily fix this by using an IBM SMS gender adapter, a molded device into which two male paddle cards are plugged. In fact, the SMS signal block into which the 1053 plugs has one such adapter already. A male card from the 1130 logic plugs into the adapter, then the male card from the 1053 plugs into the other side. 

The 1130 logic has a second male paddle card, which is plugged into the female socket on the cable that comes from the 1053. When I add a second adapter, I can plug my second male paddle card into the adapter and connect to the second male card from the 1130 logic. 

The only tricky part is that the adapter reverses pads. The leftmost pad on an SMS card is A, the rightmost is R. However, through the adapter, what is on pad A on a card plugged in will be connected to pad R on the other male card plugged in. I have to invert the male paddle card from my emulator to plug it into the adapter in order to get my signal line on pad A to connect to the 1130's paddle card pad A. 

I don't have spare adapter devices. I had to borrow the one from my own 1130 system, the one that normally connects the male 1053 cable to the male 1130 logic cable in the SMS signal block. That leaves my system unable to use its console printer, so I can't loan this to the System Source Museum when I loan them the emulator. 

If I am able to put together a usable emulator by Friday afternoon, I will have to cobble together a female paddle card socket and wire that to my emulator tomorrow. I have a start on this with some experimental work I did, but it is pretty crude and unfinished. We will see if I can pull this off by 4PM tomorrow.