AUI cables in UK?

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Sat Mar 6 01:15:52 2004

>> The size of the shell is between a DA and DB, and it has 19 pins. I
>> have no idea what it would be, but since there's no letter between A
>> and B

Depends on the alphabet in use; in Cyrillic, at least as I learnt it
back in the late '70s, A is the first letter of the alphabet and B
(pronounced like English V) is the third; the second looks to a Western
eye a bit like a capital Greek gamma overstruck with a Latin lowercase
b, and corresponds to English B. If your mail client does proper
multipart/mixed rendering and you have KOI-8 available (and I didn't
botch constructing the multipart message :), the Cyrillic alphabet as I
learnt it begins
-------------- next part --------------
?????
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....

Yes, this is a totally irrelevant trivium. :)

> I have seen the 19 pin connector (Mac external disk drive port, ST
> DMA port) called a DF19.

Is that the connector NeXTen used for video/keyboard? Same pin spacing
and narrow dimension as the DE/DA/DB connectors but 19 pins wide?

> I have no idea if this is official, though.

Who's the keeper of "official" for such things? ANSI? ISO? IEEE?

I hope that maybe this time I can remember which letter corresponds to
which shell. I've known for a long time that they weren't all strictly
DB, but had never managed to get it straight which size was which
letter.

Are the same shell codes used for connectors not using either of those
pin spacings? For example, the connector commonly called 13W3 (used
for video on some Suns and, I think, SGIs) uses a DB-sized shell, and
DE9/DA15/DB25 pin spacing for the ten pins that aren't co-ax
connectors; is there some suitable DB name for it?

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