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From: creiman@headroom.ncsa.uiuc.EDU (Chuck Reiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Yet more on HP connectors
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.104548@headroom.ncsa.uiuc.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 91 16:45:48 GMT
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>From: U46837@UICVM.uic.edu
>Subject: CONNECTORS
>Message-Id: <1845C780200006C0@gacvx2.gac.edu>
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>To Franklin Wang and others troubled with connectors, get a DIGI-KEY
>catalog.  Just dial 1-800-DIG-IKEY and ask for one.  They supply all
>kinds of connectors including a "4-conductor, single row inline with
>0.1" on center distance between pins" model, just what you would need
>on the HP48 end of the wire I/O cable.  I don't have the specific part
>number on me, but I will order the part and report on it's successfulness
>in use.  DIGI-KEY also stocks RS-232 & many other connectors, chips,
>components, and tons of other stuff.
>                                       EUG <u46837@uicvm>
> 


No! Wait! The HP48 is .079" center to center (2mm). .1" will not
work!  DuPont sell .079" center connectors, but not in 4 pin size.
I have been totally washed out trying to find a supplier who
will sell a small quantity (read 1) of these connectors. HP
knew exactly what they were doing when they chose that connector.
Sneaky, sneaky... 

Charlie Reiman
creiman@ncsa.uiuc.edu