12 Mar
2022
12 Mar
'22
7:39 a.m.
Hi Ethan,
My count is zero. I had no original patch wires at all. :-(
I made mine from some cheap banana plugs and silicon leads I bought on
AliExpress.
Only about 30 % of the plugs were a good fit, the rest I had to modify to
make them usable.
The YouTube video from my original post shows the patch wires I made.
The originals were using 0.1" taper pins, but I never saw an original
(other than photos).
I couldn't find a source for the correct 0.1" taper pins so the banana
plugs were my next best choice.
Tom
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 1:35 AM Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 8:03 AM Tom Hunter via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
As there is no real cctalk traffic other than
test messages I thought I
post something a bit more interesting. Here is a short video of my fully
restored DEC H500 Computer Lab with an 8-bit counter implementation
including reset:
Hi, Tom,
Great post and timely. I recently got leads for my H-500 but I didn't
get exactly "one set". I know I didn't get any of the longest wires
but I also got a couple extra, I think, brown ones for the tips. I
read through the handbooks and the closest thing I found was page 173
in the Workbook that mentions "Bundle of Taper-Pin Patchcords (107 of
Assorted Lengths), Model Number 916, $30).
Could you post how many of each color you have? It's possible, of
course, that you don't have exactly "one set" either, but if you
happen to have 107 wires, that's a good indication, especially if your
tally matches mine anywhere.
Here's what I have:
22 BRN ~ 3" ( 2-7/8")
30 RED ~ 5" ( 4-7/8")
25 ORN ~ 7" ( 6-7/8")
20 YEL ~ 9" ( 8-7/8")
10 GRN ~17" (16-7/8")
0 BLU
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107
-ethan