20 Aug
2020
20 Aug
'20
10:06 a.m.
Cutting-down a DA-26 might be a better bet, and
they're only pennies more
expensive than the DA-15 VGA connector.
The pin thicknesses are different
It is actually a very unusual connector.
On Aug 20, 2020, at 00:35, Peter Corlett via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
?On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 04:38:49PM +1000, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> I had a thought, that if the pin spacing was on par with say a common 15-pin
> VGA male connector I could buy a bunch of dirt cheap Golden Dragon ones, set
> them up in the mill and run a high speed slitting saw diagonally between the
> pins (right though the block and metal surround in one go), and just add a
> plastic spacer to bump it out to the length of the 19-pin. After all there
> are only 6 pins used, and of those, just one (assuming common) that would be
> on the extended bit.