Henry S. Courbis wrote:
Hey Michael.Of the thousands manufactured, if only a few ever had cables damaged, then it would have been silly to add another connector (and its issues) to cover very few actual replacements. Everything in engineering is a tradeoff...Very true. I've just always been one to socket such items. Of course the amount of lost cables may have surpassed the amount of damaged cables.
That has been my experience. -michael AppleCrate: An Apple II "blade server"! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."