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From: mikef@hpspdra.HP.COM (Mike Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Need help with Joystick/Mouse switchbox...
Message-ID: <13580001@hpspdra.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 89 17:04:31 GMT
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The need for tight right angle DB-9 connectors (like on the mouse)
can be met with the IDC (insulation displacement connectors) version
that is used with ribbon cable.  Some styles of these have a clearance
height that is about the same as the mouse connector.

Just buy a male and female pair, and some ribbon cable, and make up an
extension cable of whatever length is convenient.  I checked the 1989
Radio Shack catalog, and they don't list the particular connector that
I'm referring to, but that catalog is a full year old, and they might
stock these now.  Otherwise any industrial electronics parts place
ought to have them, they are popular.  Part numbers that should work
are: TRW/Cinch FC-9P and FC-9S, or equivalents from other vendors.
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Mike Fischer   mikef%hpspd@hplabs.hp.com   *!hplabs!hpspdra!mikef