Barry King wrote:
> <snipped>
> Look for standard enclosures with the right holes already, too.  I sell
> a product in a PacTec box that is molded to take the DA shell (9pin
> standard pitch), and they make similar cases for DB shells.

Newark (among others) sells punches;  I use a Nibbler, $10 at Radio
Shack, to make nice rectangular holes, or do as Barry says <G>  $223.51
for a panel punch?  OW!  Then another $302.17 for a ribbon connector
punch?  Forget it! <G>  I doubt you really WANT to spend $800+ for a set
of 4 of these, Jim...

DA is the 15-pin (joystick) shell, to be as Finnicky as
<paulb@midcoast.com.au>  <G>  (Historically, the 15-pin connector came
first, so is called DA;  the 25 was next, thus is DB;  37 pinners - not
super common today - next, DC's;  50 pinners are DD, then 9 pinners,
DE's.

Myself, I call 'em all DB connectors usually, because I know what I mean
and so does the person I'm talking to, so a "DB15HD" connector is a VGA
connector, technically a DE15 or HD-DA15 <G>  The Electronics world is
mostly a "Make Your Own Standard" world, sadly!  (The DA15-HD may've
been what confused you, Barry?  <G>)

{Newark catalog has "DB09's" as well as DE09's in there, different
manufacturers, different terms and naming/numbering schemes.}

> Barry.

  Mark, who's glad he learned DA = 15 pins before the DE-09 came out!
<G>

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