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From: protcoop@leibniz.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Homebrew Cables
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Date: 16 Jun 89 11:36:54 GMT
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I want to extend my external disk drive cable but I wonder how long
I can make the thing without degrading performance in any way.  Has
anybody out there tried this?  I want to do it so I can program with
my A500 on my lap, the way I used to do with my 1000.  Also, I have
a monitor that has an cable coming right out of the back of it.  The
cable goes into an IBM CGA card.  The RGB port on the AMIGA seems to
have the pins I need (R,G,B,I, Horiz, Vert, GND).  I want to make a
cable to be able to use this monitor.  Has anyone tried this.  I took
the monitor cable connector apart last night and discovered that the
RGBI pins were all soldered together with resisters between them ...
but each had its own wire running into the cable (all but Intensity
I think).  What is the longest I should make the monitor cable?

Finally ... where the heck (in CANADA hopefully) can I get DB23 
connecters?  Everyone tells me that only C= makes them.  I say they
are full of BS.
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