20mA serial cable connector

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Apr 20 15:21:34 2002

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> On Apr 19, 20:36, Don Maslin wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
> >
> > > > I've kludged together cables for a PDP-11/34 by using the pins
> > > > out of those 4-pin Molex connectors that are normally used on
> > > > disk and tape drives. We just stuck the pins in the appropriate
> > > > sockets and left it at that! Being careful not to pull on the
> > > > wire, of course.
> > >
> > > Couldn't you get a strip of plastic and drill some suitable (stepped)
> > > holes in it to hold the pins? OK, it wouldn't lock to the socket, and
> it
> > > would probably fit either way up, but at least the pins would be kept
> in
> > > the right sequence.
>
> > Another possibility, depending on the shape of the receptacle recess,
> > might be to encapsulate the pins(?) with RTV. Same caveats as Tony
> > cited above.
>
> Yet another revolutionary idea might be to buy a few of the correct
> housings :-) They're made by AMP, by the way, not Molex. They're readily
> avaialble from any AMP supplier, and very cheap.

Oops! I had somehow inferred from earlier correspondence that they were
unavailable.
                                                 - don
> --
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>
Received on Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:21:34 BST