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

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Thu Mar 29 17:22:02 2001

> >It's video, and the official designation is PITA-23. :-P
>
> Pain-in-the-arse-23?
> Why? I find the Amiga video connector to be the most versatile I've ever
> encountered. It's got both analogue and digital video as well as pins for
> genlock, clocks, three kinds of sync, lots of DC and ground.

That's why it's a PITA. Finding cables for it is expensive and few people
stock DB23 connectors.

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