FPUIB: Esoteric crap (11/28/12)

Iwould agree with that, but often these moutled cables nturn out not to have ll pins wired, abd Murphey's lawa implies one pin you want will not have a wire conencted to it :-) At one time (amybe still) you could buy mini-DIN to open-end cables (I think at least 4, 6 ,8 pin ones) from RS componnets over here. Whe n Iwas makign up the serial (RS23 2nd disk drive)( cables form my PX8, I bought a few. Much easier to wire the ends of those to DIN and D connectors than work iwth the bare mini-DIN plugs. Over here there's ridiculous law that says that all mains-powered stuff must come with a fitted plug (I can't rememebr if it has to be a 13A BS1363 plug,but prctically it always is). This means most things come with moulded plugs. COmplete wit inadequate cable strain releif, un-inspectable connetions nad other horrors. Which means I normally cut off said plug and fit a re-wirable one. Such plugs are therefore not as common as theu once were, but they're not difficult to obtain. Most IEC cables onver here are moutded at both ends, but rewirable IEC scokets (adnd plugs) are easily avaialble if you want them. -tony