Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpspdra!mikef 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 References: <508@aucis.UUCP> Organization: HP Stanford Park - Palo Alto, CA Lines: 14 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. -- Mike Fischer mikef%hpspd@hplabs.hp.com *!hplabs!hpspdra!mikef