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

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Mon Apr 2 16:55:11 2001

Ethan Dicks skrev:

>--- John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com> wrote:
>> At 03:22 PM 3/29/01 -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> >That's why it's a PITA. Finding cables for it is expensive and few people
>> >stock DB23 connectors.
>>
>> Has the world forgotten how to hack-saw two pins/sockets
>> 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.

If that holds true, then I'm not amazed that some people in another club who
are using Amigas for subtitling managed to plug a genlock into the serial
port. Bad idea.

--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
G? med i SUGA, Swedish Usergroup of Amiga!
WWW: http://swedish.usergroup.amiga.tm/
BBS: 08-6582572, telnet://sua.ath.cx:42512
Received on Mon Apr 02 2001 - 16:55:11 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:33:23 BST