28 Dec
2013
28 Dec
'13
7:39 p.m.
On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 blstuart at bellsouth.net wrote:
True. In the case of the ones I've been using, it turned out to be
easier to cut and patch the connections I needed to than to just cut
the ribbon cable through and rewire all the connections. And by
staggering where I cut the ribbon cable, it remains pretty sturdy.
BLS
What I've done lately is use a cable with a
10-pin header on one end
and a DE-9 on the other. These cables came from some inexpensive PC
rear brackets. I did have to cut a few of the lines and reconnect.
There are two mutually incompatible common pinouts for those connectors,
and 10*9! (factorial) possible pinouts.