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Tomb馃拃Time @tubetime@mastodon.social

on this halloween let's look at some cursed connectors. may i present: the DB-20

looks like a d sub connector but the pins are on a grid and there are 20 of them

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Tomb馃拃Time @tubetime@mastodon.social

or perhaps the DB-5 is more to your taste

looks like a DE-9 but there are only 5 pin sockets, spaced widely apart, and two of them are bigger.

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Tomb馃拃Time @tubetime@mastodon.social

this one is like if someone recreated a DE-9 connector from a verbal description, having never seen the original.

back of some sort of docking station. there's a "DE-9" connector but the spacing is all wrong

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Tomb馃拃Time @tubetime@mastodon.social

some people call this a centronics-style connector, but it is a Micro Ribbon connector with some extra coaxials...

hybrid connector that looks like an old scsi or printer connector but it has three coax connectors inside it as well

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Tomb馃拃Time @tubetime@mastodon.social

the fabled DE-0

a DE-style connector but there are no pins or sockets. just a blank plastic area.

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Tomb馃拃Time @tubetime@mastodon.social

it's not cute! connectors only do this when they're in distress

vaguely like a PS/2 mini DIN connector but the pins are all jumbled up

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Tomb馃拃Time @tubetime@mastodon.social

this is what happens when someone asks "instead of two connectors, let's use just one connector"

two micro-ribbon connectors that are somehow conjoined

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Tomb馃拃Time @tubetime@mastodon.social

two engineers fought over what kind of connector to use on a product. "a DE-9" shouted one. "no, screw terminals!" screamed the other. "why not both" said the small girl, calmly.

a de-9 shell with three pluggable screw terminals in green plastic

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Tomb馃拃Time @tubetime@mastodon.social

this may look like an ordinary 27-pin circular connector, but i assure you that is a standard banana next to it, not some sort of fake plastic stunt banana.

a very large circular connector. the pins are about the size of banana plugs. there is also a banana for scale.

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