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

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Apr 2 12:08:35 2001

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > >That's why it's a PITA. Finding cables for it is expensive and few people
> > >stock DB23 connectors.
> > off a regular -25? :-)
> I've seen that on commercial products - Genlocks, mostly. It works OK for
> converting a DB-25S, but it gets ugly for a DB-25P. Fortunately, I still
> have one or two Amiga connectors I got back in the bad old days.

I found that it was ugly only in a completely literal way -- it definitely
LOOKED ugly. When I got my first Amiga 1000 in 1986?, I could not find a
source for D(almostB)23P, so I cut off one end of the shell and the last
two pins of a DB25P. It worked just fine, except that you had to look
while connecting, as it was now POSSIBLE to plug the connector in offset
from its correct position.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Mon Apr 02 2001 - 12:08:35 BST

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