On 5/30/21 10:42 AM, Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk wrote:
The mini-banana works OK, and I don't know of anything better that is still
available. A hundred of them (50 patch cables) won't be cheap.
https://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/computerlab/computerlab.php
The photos get a little bigger if you click them. Those bits of stamped
brass or whatever they are made of were probably pennies each.
That's interesting, I just dug out my 1962 DEC modules handbook (which
appears to pre-date the H-500 by a few years) and they were using banana
plugs for connections between their modules at that point in time. I wonder
why they changed - purely cost reasons?
