Alan,
great write up, I hope it goes well.
As for the broken links, I see you found Matthias' page, his is the one
I followed years ago. Another good one is Jools Palmer's page here:
http://www.palmer895.btinternet.co.uk/spc900.htm
Mine might also be a broken link too. My old Tel$tra page isn't up
anymore and I had a few details about my mods and homemade housings
on that. I'll eventually get it back up somewhere online.
Mine works through a hybrid cable that I made which has both
parallel and USB control lines in it with no crosstalk or bad data.
I made the connections all standard so I could run all of my
different webcam mod cameras with this same cable. I used a DB9
for the pinouts.
I've done a few 900NC mods now and they have all gone well.
It's a very easy mod compared to the nerve wracking pin lift mods
I did years previous.
I've got one that is peltier cooled in an aluminium housing. Pics below.
PM me if you want any info on the mod but like I said, Mathias'
and Jools pages pretty much cover the basics.
good luck..
Steve