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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: unfamiliar power connector
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.040814.2563@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 04:08:14 GMT

I recently got hold of a small number of cheap brick-style power supplies
with good-looking specs; by the markings, they were made for Colecovision
video games.  (The part number is 55416 if that is useful.)  The user-end
connector is an oddball, which I think I've seen once or twice before but
can't find during a quick browse through catalogs.

The connector is female, meant to go into a receptacle with recessed male
pins in it.  The overall shape of the recess would be rectangular, about
1x2cm by 1cm deep, with pins like this:

	---------------
	|    O   O    |
	| O         O |
	---------------

Pins would be about 2mm in diameter; the ones for standard Molex connectors
are a bit too small.

I'd appreciate any pointers to possible sources for the receptacles.  In
a pinch I can always just clip the funny connector off the cable and
substitute something more orthodox, but it seems a shame to mess with
this if I don't have to.  (Cannibalizing defunct Colecovisions is an
obvious possibility, but I don't have a source for them either!)  All
suggestions welcome.
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