17 Mar
2005
17 Mar
'05
7:18 p.m.
Another tip ; If, as here, you're making a cable with swapped-round
connections, get the 'rainbow' multi-coloured cable, not the grey stuff.
Being able to recognise wire 15 (it's the second green one) rather than
counting, and probalby miscounting, for each one, is well worth the extra
cost of the rainbow cable.
Tony, of all the useful suggestions I've seen you make on this list,
that's probably the coolest. from this list. There'd be no point in being on
this list if I knew
everything.
I know my parts house *has* a few yards of multi-color 34-lead
ribbon, and it likely wouldn't have occured to me to use it.
For some reason, the rainbow cable normally starts with 'brown' (1), not
'black' (0). This sort-of annoys me, I've got so used to counting from
0.... (On the other hand I did celebrate the new Millennium at the right
time...)
-tony