Does anyone have a picture of a real original dvi cable for model 200? Specifically, the plug that goes in the 200?
I have a working cable using standard female plugs on both ends, plus a pin header gender changer stuck in the 200 end. It works fine and is cheap and easy to make, and it's fine for myself and most people to use, assuming they are the same people who read the directions that said "plug it in this way..." and not a grandkid a few years later who found all the stuff in a box. But I don't just want a cable. I want to document how to make a cable, and for that this isn't great. * It's not polarity keyed. * When you unplug from the 200, the pin header is equally likely to stay in the 200 as on the cable, so, you would have to glue the pin header to the cable or something if you don't want to keep prying and digging at the 200. Or use two cables with the pin header in the middle (blech). * Male pins should be shrouded to protect them from shorting on things. * Male pins should be shrouded to protect them from getting bent. For model 102 it's easy. A standard idc male box header fits. It's more of a pain in the neck to build the cable, since you have to seperate and twist the wires, but the end result is a cable that is safely polarity keyed on both ends and the pins are shrouded. But the opening around the bus connector on the model 200 is smaller, and the box header doesnt' fit, at least not the crimp-on ones. So I'm wondering what did they give to customers originally? A cable made with a soldered box header? (the shroud is smaller on those and might possibly fit in the opening) Some funky custom made plug? A part that used to be off-the-shelf but just isn't any more (like the molex option rom)? Exposed pins with no polarity mechanism or protection? I suppose one way you could at least make your own polarity key without getting too crazy with fabricating, is just by gluing a single piece of something flat and strong to the non-notched side of the plug, to make a solid wall along one row of pins. If you try to plug in the wrong way, the wall will hit the polarity bump in the model 200. -- bkw
