Hi, I have a DEC computer lab, but no cables. It works fine, but I would love to pair it with an original-as-reasonable set of cables.
Are the mini-banana plugs the best modern replacement available? Are pics of the original plugs available? Thank you, -Eric On Sun, May 30, 2021, 3:08 AM Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 5/29/2021 10:52 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > >> While the mini-banana makes a passable (though expensive) modern > >> substitute, I believe the originals were hollow crimp-on taper pins, > >> #42107 or #42279. > > > > Really? I have loads of taper pin patch cables. I should try one out. > > > > The sockets just loom too big for taper pins. > > I have a few original cables. They look to my untrained eye like > stranded hook-up wire with a crimp-on pin on each end. The pins look > like brass, and are about the size of the ones in the DEC current loop > connectors, except brass and fatter as you move back toward the crimp. > > Like proper taper pins, they wedge nicely into the brass annuli on the > H-500. They also work nicely in the earlier Logic Lab panels that took > the flip-chip modules. I wish I could find a source for the pins, as > I'd like to make a pile of patch cables! > > Unless your taper pin patch cables fit, and you want to unload a bunch > of them :-). > > Vince >