Normal
High Density
DE9 DE15
DA15 DA26
DB25 DB44
DC37 DC62
DD50
The letters don't necessarily indicate a progression in size, which is
I suspect (without proof) that initially there were just DA-DD shells.
Then somebody decided to make a smaller version with 9 pins. They had to
call it the DE shell (calling it the D@ shell would have been stupid! [1]).
stupid. Who comes up with this crap?
Cannon connectors? (Note, I do mean Cannon and not Canon).
[1] Since '@' comes just before 'A' in ASCII, and since, like all good
hackers [2], I start counting from zero, I have been known to use '@' as
a lstter 0 when identifying sections of a document, etc.
[2] I am not claiming to be a good hacker (or any kind of hacker) here.
-tony