Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!milton!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!acad2.anc.alaska.edu!asslk From: asslk@acad2.anc.alaska.edu (Kingry Shane L) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: cable end part number Message-ID: <1991Mar23.083144.3057@ims.alaska.edu> Date: 23 Mar 91 08:31:44 GMT References: <1991Mar22.203837.6933@bigsur.uucp> Sender: usenet@ims.alaska.edu (J Random USENET) Reply-To: asslk@acad2.anc.alaska.edu Organization: University of Alaska Anchorage Lines: 32 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Nntp-Posting-Host: acad2.alaska.edu In article <1991Mar22.203837.6933@bigsur.uucp>, dave@bgtys6.uucp (Dave Hubert) writes... >Does anybody know the part number for the HP48sx end of the cable? I'm >trying to make my own. I know about the rs232 connector (db25, mini8 din, >etc) (thanks Kingry Shane L.), but I was hoping someone would know of a >part number for the other connector for a large retail chain outlet like >Radio Shack or some other canadian distributor. > >I'm going to head down to the store tonight and see what I come up with. >Cross my fingers... > >Thanks in advance, >-Dave. I found these little brass hollow tubes - very small. To the best of my analysis, there are the female part of a db25 connector. You can buy these pins, and puch them into the proper slot on the connector. Anyway, I solderd(sp) the four wires from my cable, one to each hollow pin. Then, I pished all of the hollow pins onto the proper HP male pin, and while theye were there, I brought out the handy dandy ZAP glue, and glued all four female (hollow) pins together... A friend of mine used a glue gun. The only thing that one should watch real carefully is not to glue your newly made cable end on the pins to the pins!! |----------glue these four female hollow pins together ------------=== -- ------------=== -- ------------=== -- ------------=== -- ^ ^ ^ Wire to | | |____HP male pins in calc computer |______female hollow pins