20mA serial cable connector

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Sat Apr 20 18:23:15 2002

At 01:21 PM 4/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>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.

There was no inference necessary. I posted the response from Tyco/AMP which
clearly states that they stopped making them back in 1997 and they are no
longer available or in stock.

--tom
Received on Sat Apr 20 2002 - 18:23:15 BST