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From: gore@nucsrl.UUCP (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2000 Owners Relax (WAS: Re: 2000 owners beware!)
Message-ID: <8060001@nucsrl.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 17:29:53 GMT
References: <3147@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ nucsrl:comp.sys.amiga / daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) / Jan 14, 1988 /
>>in article <2808@homxc.UUCP>, jonny@homxc.UUCP (J.HILL) says:
>> [...]  The second time I lifted it I noticed that one of the
>> 34 pins coming up from the motherboard had taken a hike.  Can
>> anyone out there guess where it went?  Into the socket, of course.
>> Permanently.  It had sheared off completely at the base.
>
>No it didn't.  That's what's called a KEY.  The 34 pin connector looks 
>something like this (side view):
>
>	O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
>	O X O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
>
>The "X" there is your missing pin.  And it's supposed to be missing.  And
>the corresponding pin on the mating connector is supposed to be filled.
>That's how we prevent people from accidently plugging in this connector
>wrong.  Who would?  Last week I would have asked myself who would go crazy
>over a keying pin...

J.HILL's posting implies that there was something that looked like a
broken-off pin in the corresponding hole in the socket.  If that's the case,
then his deduction was very reasonable.

I have recently dealt with cables where the socket slot corresponding to the
missing (keying) pin was filled with plastic.  No problem, no panic.

It seems to me that whoever made this connection brought this on themselves.

Jacob Gore				gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{gargoyle,ihnp4,chinet}!nucsrl!gore