[cctalk] Re: Need AUI cable

28 Jun 2023

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  If we're being pedantic....  ;-)
> Since you asked for it, the PC joystick connector was a DA-15;
> the PC VGA connector was a DE-15.
 On Tue, 27 Jun 2023, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
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  Wasn't PC VGA considered a /High/ /Density/
DE-15?

It is sometimes caalled that.

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   A DB-9 was a
25 pin connector (often serial), and often with pins 
 1-8 and 20.  I don't know which pins would be present on a DB-15.
  I'm not tracking.  How is a DB-9 (pin) *cough* DE-9 *cough* a 9-pin 
 connector?  How does that make it to the DB-25?
 Or are you meaning to say that many DB-25 pin serial ports were really 
 wired up as if they were a 9-pin serial port, independent of the 
 physical connector?
 DB-15???  Did you mean DA-15?
 I'll see myself out now.  ;-)

With many boxes of used cables, often there will be cables that are DB-25, 
but with 16 pins missing in the 25 pin connector, often leaving pins 1-8 
and 20, and gaps where other pins could have been..  I call THAT a DB-9 
:-) 
Similarly, if a DB-25 has 10 pins missing from the 25 pin connector, then 
I call THAT a DB-15.

DA, DC, DE connectors are a different size D shell than the DB, which is 
the one commonly used for a 25 pin cable.

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[cctalk] Re: Need AUI cable