I'm afraid
my electronic skills (which are close to zero) won't
allow me to do that.
C: It doesn't require any electronics skills at all, but
simply
stringing wires between pins.
That involes soldering, or something operationally equivalent. That is
quite definitely a skill. To people like me (and, likely, you), who've
been doing it for decades, it may seem a bit like walking, something so
obvious and natural it's barely even worth mentioning. But to someone
who's new to it, it's well, like walking to a toddler: new, difficult,
requiring concentration, and even when it's done usually not done all
that well.
Of course, the only way to get good at it is to practice. But it's not
clear to me that ama@ wants to get good at it (as weird as that may
seem to me, especially for someone in this hobby).
ama, if you do want to get good at soldering, you'll need to practice,
practice, and practice some more. This is not necessarily a good thing
to practice on, but it's not all that bad a thing; a DB-25 is a
relatively easy thing to solder to - not quite as easy as, say,
soldering a 2W resistor to an octal vacuum tube socket, but certainly
nowhere near as exacting as the QFP packages some people here deal wit
hroutinely. And even if you completely ruin the connector somehow,
it's a relatively cheap and plentiful thing; it's not like an ASIC from
a classic machine that's made of pure unobtanium these days.
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