Power cable identification

Josh Dersch derschjo at gmail.com
Sat Jun 25 22:23:57 CDT 2016


On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So I know for certain that this topic has come up before, but I cannot
> for
> > the life of me find the thread(s) it appeared in, so I'm asking again
> > (apologies in advance).
> >
> > What is the name of the rounded, 3-pin power connector often seen on
> early
> > test equipment (I've seen it on older HP and Fluke stuff)?  I have an
> S-100
> > chassis that inexplicably uses one, despite dating from 1982 or so.  I
> need
> > to track one of these cables down but I have no idea what it is exactly
> I'm
> > looking for...
>
> Round or oval?
>
> Maybe a 163 as shown on Brent's page here:
> http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/powerConn/index.html#163
>


Thanks (also thanks to William).  The 163's the one I'm looking for.  That
was quick! :)

- Josh


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