Re: nnnnnnhhhhhh, no ADB cables anywhere

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5o81oc$cdc@news.Hawaii.Edu>,
Galen Tatsuo Komatsu <gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu> wrote:
>	ahh, this bites.  I get a free IIGS but with no keyboard cable.
>Simple I figure, same cable as the Mac so I'll hit the local computer
>stores for it.
>
>	Nobody has it.
>
>	Computer City had none, (thus quoth the salesdroid "is that
>Apple or PC?"), the nearby office supply superstore had none, Sears
>has none, the locally based store which does Apples had none (and by
>the look of things, is closing up too. =^(

Computer City doesn't stock Apple stuff worth a hoot, and forget about
office supply stores like Officemax. I looked for a SCSI cable there
once and discovered that they don't stock such things. Joe Idiot who
sits in front of a Wintel box all day has no need for such a cable, so the
logic seems to go. I think mail order like from Macwarehouse is the most
reliable way to turn one up.

>	So then I noticed ADB plug is more or less a mini-din plug 
>with less pins and that plastic thingy and getting kind of desperate
>I pondered the idea of taking an extra IWII printer cable I have and
>breaking off the extra pins.  (and using it until I find the genuine
>thing) Anyone else resort to such measures?  And any rewiring necessary
>for the four pins?

An emergency measure is to use a S-video cable, since they have the same
connectors. I'd really try to find a genuine ADB cable though.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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