> But I am curious what the Sun monitor connector is called (that one that
> is a DB shell with 3 large barrel pins as well as some smaller pins).
13W3
At 11:52 AM 9/8/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >Do you mean "DB9" connectors?
>
>I was under the impression that the small D shell size was an "E" not a
>"B". That "B" was the larger size commonly found on 25 pin connectors
>(lets not split hairs here, everyone knows what I mean by 25 pin
>connector... ie: a common PC parallel connector, or the larger serial
>connector, or a Mac SCSI connector).
>
>I used to call it a DB9, but I was corrected many moons ago by others on
>this list with FAR more knowledge on the topic than I have, so I took
>them at their word, and have made an effort to always refer to it as a
>DE9 now.
>
>I suppose the HD15 "VGA" connector would then be a DE15. And a DB9 would
>be a "25 pin" shell with only 9 actual pins in it (9 pin spaces, as from
>what I understand the count is based on number of spaces, not actual
>number of pins present).
>
>
>Hopefully we will avoid the whole "whats a
>"centronics/amphenol/telco/SCSI" connector called" discussion. That one
>really makes my head spin :-)
>
>But I am curious what the Sun monitor connector is called (that one that
>is a DB shell with 3 large barrel pins as well as some smaller pins).
>
>-chris
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