D connector tirade (was: Re: Age-old ethernet equipment)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon Apr 2 02:37:27 2001

On Apr 1, 19:31, Geoff Reed wrote:
> http://www.blackbox.nl/techweb/connect/db15hd.htm
> it's a DB15HD, if you go to google and search, a heckuva lot of hits
come
> up for it. looking in a "Pocket PC-Ref" book I have also referrs to it as
> DB15HD. the D shell looks to be the same size as a DB-9

As Tony pointed out, it can't properly be a "DB" anything, since a standard
9-pin shell is DE. Just because some people commonly refer to it as DB
doesn't mean it's correct, after all lots of people call the standard 9-pin
shell a DB. Amp, for example, refer to their entire standard series as
"DB" but that's not what most other manufacturers do.

McMurdo refer to the type used for VGA as HDE15 (and the next sizes up as
HDA26 and HDB44) which seems much more likely to be correct.

And I wouldn't particularly believe BlackBox, they're just one reseller.

> At 06:43 PM 3/31/01 +0100, you wrote:
> > >
> > > I've seen the VGA plug referred to as DB15HD
> >
> >I could believe DE15HD, or HDE15. But not DB-anything -- it's not a size
> >B shell after all (which is how this thread got started...)
> >
> >-tony
>


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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Mon Apr 02 2001 - 02:37:27 BST

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