If we're being pedantic.... ;-)
Since you asked for it, the PC joystick connector was a DA-15;
the PC VGA connector was a DE-15.
On Tue, 27 Jun 2023, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
Wasn't PC VGA considered a /High/ /Density/ DE-15?
It is sometimes caalled that.
A DB-9 was a 25 pin connector (often serial), and often with pins
1-8 and 20. I don't know which pins would be present on a DB-15.
I'm not tracking. How is a DB-9 (pin) *cough* DE-9 *cough* a 9-pin
connector? How does that make it to the DB-25?
Or are you meaning to say that many DB-25 pin serial ports were really
wired up as if they were a 9-pin serial port, independent of the
physical connector?
DB-15??? Did you mean DA-15?
I'll see myself out now. ;-)
With many boxes of used cables, often there will be cables that are DB-25,
but with 16 pins missing in the 25 pin connector, often leaving pins 1-8
and 20, and gaps where other pins could have been.. I call THAT a DB-9
:-)
Similarly, if a DB-25 has 10 pins missing from the 25 pin connector, then
I call THAT a DB-15.
DA, DC, DE connectors are a different size D shell than the DB, which is
the one commonly used for a 25 pin cable.
